Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 124
1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say; 2If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. 7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. 8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.