40 Day Adventure – Day 22

₁What if the LORD had not been on our side?

Answer, O Israel!

₂“If the LORD had not been on our side

when our enemies attacked us,

₃then they would have swallowed us alive

in their furious anger against us;

₄then the flood would have carried us away,

the water would have covered us,

₅the raging torrent would have drowned us.”

₆Let us thank the LORD,

who has not let our enemies destroy us.

₇We have escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap;

the trap is broken, and we are free!

₈Our help comes from the LORD,

who made heaven and earth.

₁Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion,

which can never be shaken, never be moved.

₂As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

so the LORD surrounds his people

now and for ever.

₃The wicked will not always rule over the land of the righteous;

if they did, the righteous themselves might do evil.

₄LORD, do good to those who are good,

to those who obey your commands.

₅But when you punish the wicked,

punish also those who abandon your ways.

Peace be with Israel!