The chapter as it stands, read forward into the canon it would help write. Beside each verse, the New Testament places that quote, allude to, or echo it — follow any to read it in its own argument. The verse number opens its full reception dossier.
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If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,
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if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;
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then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
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then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
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Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.