Our help is in the name of the Lord
							
																								
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									 If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel now declare—
								
							 
																								
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									if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
								
							 
																								
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									when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
								
							 
																								
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									then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
								
							 
																								
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									then the raging waters  would have swept us away.
								
							 
																								
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									 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
								
							 
																								
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									We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
								
							 
																								
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									Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.