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If the LORD had not been for us, now may Israel say,
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If the LORD had not been for us, when men rose up against us,
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then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
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then the waters would have overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;
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then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who did not give us as a prey to their teeth. 7 Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made the heaven and the earth.