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- <A Song of the going up.
Of David.>
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);
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- If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;
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- They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
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- We would have been covered by the waters;
the streams would have gone over our soul;
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- Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.
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- Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.
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- Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.
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- Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
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