Blessed be the LORD,
who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us,
the stream had gone over our soul:
Then the proud waters
had gone over our soul.

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
when men rose up against us:
Then they had swallowed us up quick,
when their wrath was kindled against us:

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
now may Israel say;

Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning of those that are at ease,
and with the contempt of the proud.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us:
for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters,
and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress;

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,
O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

For my brethren and companions' sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Because of the house of the LORD our God
I will seek thy good.