Psa 124:2-5 | NETfull | STEP | if the Lord had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

Psalms 124:2-5

2 if the Lord had not been on our side,
when men attacked us, ^{▼▼ Heb “rose up against us.”}
3 they would have swallowed us alive,
when their anger raged against us.
4 The water would have overpowered us;
the current ^{▼▼ Or “stream.”} would have overwhelmed ^{▼▼ Heb “would have passed over.”} us. ^{▼▼ Heb “our being.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).}
5 The raging water
would have overwhelmed us. ^{▼▼ Heb “then they would have passed over our being, the raging waters.”}