Psalms 124:4-8

124:4 The water would have overpowered us;

the current ¹  would have overwhelmed ²  us. ³ 

124:5 The raging water

would have overwhelmed us. ⁴ 

124:6 The Lord deserves praise, ⁵ 

for ⁶  he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

124:7 We escaped with our lives, ⁷  like a bird from a hunter’s snare.

The snare broke, and we escaped.

124:8 Our deliverer is the Lord, ⁸ 

the Creator ⁹  of heaven and earth.

[124:4]  ¹ tn Or “stream.”

[124:4]  ² tn Heb “would have passed over.”

[124:4]  ³ tn Heb “our being.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

[124:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “then they would have passed over our being, the raging waters.”

[124:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[124:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “[the one] who.”

[124:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “our life escaped.”

[124:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “our help [is] in the name of the Lord.”

[124:8]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Maker.”