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 <div class="label">124</div><div class="s1">Psalm 124#sn Psalm 124. Israel acknowledges that the Lord delivered them from certain disaster.</div><div class="s2">A song of ascents,#sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21. by David.</div><div class="p">1 &#8220;If the Lord had not been on our side&#8221; &#8211; </div><div class="p">let Israel say this! &#8211; </div><div class="p">2 if the Lord had not been on our side,</div><div class="p">when men attacked us,#tn Heb &#8220;rose up against us.&#8221;</div><div class="p">3 they would have swallowed us alive,</div><div class="p">when their anger raged against us.</div><div class="p">4 The water would have overpowered us;</div><div class="p">the current#tn Or &#8220;stream.&#8221; would have overwhelmed#tn Heb &#8220;would have passed over.&#8221; us.#tn Heb &#8220;our being.&#8221; The Hebrew term &#1504;&#1462;&#1508;&#1462;&#1513;&#1473; (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. &#1504;&#1462;&#1508;&#1462;&#1513;&#1473; 4.a).</div><div class="p">5 The raging water</div><div class="p">would have overwhelmed us.#tn Heb &#8220;then they would have passed over our being, the raging waters.&#8221;</div><div class="p">6 The Lord deserves praise,#tn Heb &#8220;blessed [be] the Lord.&#8221;</div><div class="p">for#tn Heb &#8220;[the one] who.&#8221; he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.</div><div class="p">7 We escaped with our lives,#tn Heb &#8220;our life escaped.&#8221; like a bird from a hunter&#8217;s snare.</div><div class="p">The snare broke, and we escaped.</div><div class="p">8 Our deliverer is the Lord,#tn Heb &#8220;our help [is] in the name of the Lord.&#8221;</div><div class="p">the Creator#tn Or &#8220;Maker.&#8221; of heaven and earth.</div>
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“If the LORD had not been on our side” –
let Israel say this! –
if the LORD had not been on our side,
when men attacked us,
they would have swallowed us alive,
when their anger raged against us.
The water would have overpowered us;
the current would have overwhelmed us.
The raging water
would have overwhelmed us.
The LORD deserves praise,
for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.
We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare.
The snare broke, and we escaped.
Our deliverer is the LORD,
the Creator of heaven and earth.

सुनें - Psalms 124