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124 Psalms

A Song of Ascents. Of David.  
1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
let Israel now say -

The Lord is on Our Side. Psalm 124(v123)
2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side,
when men rose up against us,

 
3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their anger was kindled against us;
 
4 then the flood would have swept us away,
the torrent would have gone over us;

 
5 then over us would have gone the raging waters.
 
6 Blessed be Yahweh,
who has not given us as prey to their teeth!

 
7 We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

 
8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.

 
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The katapi New Standard Bible is a very light revision of the RSV. The changes are: (1) In places where 'the LORD', 'O LORD' occurs in the RSV, (it represents the tetragrammaton - YHWH - which is in the hebrew text), I have printed 'YHWH' in black. The later vowel sounds I have shown in the colour gray;
(2) I have removed the quotation marks and hyphens that were used in so many names in the RSV as an aid to correct pronunciation. This now brings it in line with all other English versions, and makes any word-search more accurate.
(3) I have changed all (I hope!) of the RSV archaic language sections to modern.

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