Psalm 124:2
New International Version
if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,

New Living Translation
What if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us?

English Standard Version
if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us,

Berean Standard Bible
if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

King James Bible
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

New King James Version
“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us,

New American Standard Bible
“Had it not been the LORD who was on our side When people rose up against us,

NASB 1995
“Had it not been the LORD who was on our side When men rose up against us,

NASB 1977
“Had it not been the LORD who was on our side, When men rose up against us;

Legacy Standard Bible
“Had it not been Yahweh who was on our side When men rose up against us,

Amplified Bible
“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side When men rose up against us,

Christian Standard Bible
if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

American Standard Version
If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if it was not LORD JEHOVAH who stood for us when the children of men stood up against us,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us;

Contemporary English Version
"The LORD was on our side! Otherwise, the enemy attack

Douay-Rheims Bible
If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us

English Revised Version
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,

Good News Translation
"If the LORD had not been on our side when our enemies attacked us,

International Standard Version
if the LORD had not been on our side, when men came against us,

JPS Tanakh 1917
If it had not been the LORD who was for us, When men rose up against us,

Literal Standard Version
If YHWH had not been for us, | In the rising up of man against us,

Majority Standard Bible
if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

New American Bible
Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose against us,

NET Bible
if the LORD had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

New Revised Standard Version
if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when our enemies attacked us,

New Heart English Bible
if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

Webster's Bible Translation
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

World English Bible
if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

Young's Literal Translation
Save for Jehovah -- who hath been for us, In the rising up of man against us,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Our Help is in the Name of the LORD
1A song of ascents. Of David. If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare— 2if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us, 3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,…

Cross References
Psalm 94:17
Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

Psalm 124:1
If the LORD had not been on our side--let Israel now declare--

Psalm 124:3
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Jeremiah 51:55
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.


Treasury of Scripture

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

when men

Psalm 21:1,2
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! …

Psalm 3:1
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Psalm 22:12,13,16
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round…

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(2) If it had not been.--For this motto of the covenant, see Psalm 94:17.

Men.--Better, man. In this use of the general term, we must, as Reuss points out, see an indication of the time of composition of the psalm. One who could so speak of the whole world as separated into two parts (Jews and heathen), discloses a sense of isolation and exclusiveness which brings us far down from the time of the prophets. They, indeed, spoke of it as the ideal of the future. This psalmist regards it as an accomplished fact.

Verse 2. - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us. The "rising" intended may have been that of Saul and his aiders and abettors, or that of the Ammonites and Syrians (2 Samuel 10:6-8), or that of Absalom and his partisans (2 Samuel 15:2-13).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
if the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

had not
לוּלֵ֣י (lū·lê)
Conjunction
Strong's 3884: If not, unless

been on our side
שֶׁהָ֣יָה (še·hā·yāh)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

when men
אָדָֽם׃ (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

attacked
בְּק֖וּם (bə·qūm)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

us,
עָלֵ֣ינוּ (‘ā·lê·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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