{"id":283,"date":"2025-10-04T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2026-06-17T06:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:20:32","slug":"psalm-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 124"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 If it had not been the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lord<\/mark> who was on our side\u2014<br>let Israel now say\u2014<br>2 if it had not been the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lord<\/mark> who was on our side<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:2em\">when people rose up against us,<br>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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" 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>!<br>7 We have escaped like a bird<br>from the snare of the fowlers;<br>the snare is broken,<br>and we have escaped!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left:0em\">8 Our help is in the name of the <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">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 side when 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":4,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/430"}],"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}]}}