{"id":283,"date":"2025-10-04T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:04:36","slug":"psalm-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 124"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1 If it had not been <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">the Lord<\/mark> who was on our side\u2014<br>let Israel now say\u2014<br>2 if it had not been <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">the Lord<\/mark> who was on our side<br>when people rose up against us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">3 then they would have <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">swallowed<\/mark> us up alive,<br>when their anger was kindled against us;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">4 then the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">flood<\/mark> would have swept us away,<br><br>the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">torrent<\/mark> would have gone over us;<br><br>5 then over us would have gone<br>the raging <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">waters<\/mark>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">6 Blessed be the Lord,<br>who has not given us<br>as prey to their <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">teeth<\/mark>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 We have escaped like a bird<br>from the snare of the fowlers;<br>the snare is broken,<br>and we have escaped!<br>8 Our help is in the name of <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">the Lord<\/mark>,<br>who made heaven and earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side\u2014let Israel now say\u20142 if it had not been the Lord who was on our sidewhen people rose up against us, 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,when their anger was kindled against us; 4 then the flood would have swept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}