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¹ What if the Lord had not been on our side?
    Answer, O Israel!

² "If the Lord had not been on our side
    when our enemies attacked us,
³ then they would have swallowed us alive
    in their furious anger against us;
⁴ then the flood would have carried us away,
    the water would have covered us,
⁵     the raging torrent would have drowned us."

⁶ Let us thank the Lord,
    who has not let our enemies destroy us.
⁷ We have escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap;
    the trap is broken, and we are free!
⁸ Our help comes from the Lord,
    who made heaven and earth.