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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 124, Verse 3

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If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
American Standard Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
New English Translation
they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.
World English Bible
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
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Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
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Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
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Blessed [be] the LORD, who hath not given us [as] a prey to their teeth.
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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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Our help [is] in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
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A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.
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As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
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Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that are] upright in their hearts.
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As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.