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The Lord deserves praise,[a]
for[b] he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.
We escaped with our lives,[c] like a bird from a hunter’s snare.
The snare broke, and we escaped.
Our deliverer is the Lord,[d]
the Creator[e] of heaven and earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 124:6 tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”
  2. Psalm 124:6 tn Heb “[the one] who.”
  3. Psalm 124:7 tn Heb “our life escaped.”
  4. Psalm 124:8 tn Heb “our help [is] in the name of the Lord.”
  5. Psalm 124:8 tn Or “Maker.”

Praise be to the Lord,
    who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
We have escaped like a bird
    from the fowler’s snare;(A)
the snare has been broken,(B)
    and we have escaped.
Our help is in the name(C) of the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven(D) and earth.

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