PSALMS 124

1 You Israeli people, answer this question: What would have happened to us if Yahweh had not been ◄helping/fighting for► us? 2 When our enemies attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us, 3 we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us! 4 They would have been like [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away; it would have been as though the water would have covered us, 5 and we would all have drowned in the flood that was ◄raging/flowing very fast►. 6 But praise Yahweh, because he has not allowed our enemies to destroy us like wild animals [MET] tear apart the creatures that they capture. 7 We have escaped from our enemies like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set; it is as though the trap that our enemies set for us was broken and we have escaped from it! 8 Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY]; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.