1: If GOD hadn't been for us -all together now, Israel, sing out!-
2: If GOD hadn't been for us when everyone went against us,
3: We would have been swallowed alive by their violent anger,
4: Swept away by the flood of rage, drowned in the torrent;
5: We would have lost our lives in the wild, raging water.
6: Oh, blessed be GOD! He didn't go off and leave us. He didn't abandon us defenseless, helpless as a rabbit in a pack of snarling dogs.
7: We've flown free from their fangs, free of their traps, free as a bird. Their grip is broken; we're free as a bird in flight.
8: GOD's strong name is our help, the same GOD who made heaven and earth.