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Psalms 124:2

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

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לוּלֵ֣יluleifלוּלֵאconjunction — “if”H3884if notexcept, had not, if (...not), unless, were it not that.יְ֭הוָהyehvahJehovahיְהֹוָהnoun, proper name — “Jehovah”H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodJehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה).שֶׁהָ֣יָהshehayahwho beהָיָהparticle, relative, verb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “who be”, a completed actionH1961to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.לָ֑נוּlanvtoלָ֑נוּpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “to”toבְּק֖וּםbequmin riseקוּםpreposition, verb, qal, infinitive construct — “in rise”, the to-form of the verbH6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)abide, accomplish, [idiom] be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, [idiom] be dim, endure, [idiom] enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, [idiom] but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (u…עָלֵ֣ינוּaleynvaboveעַלpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…אָדָֽםadampersonאָדָםnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “person”, the ordinary formH120ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)[idiom] another, [phrase] hypocrite, [phrase] common sort, [idiom] low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

'If it had not been the LORD who was for us, when men rose up against us,

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American Standard Version (1901)

If it had not been Jehovah 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,

World English Bible

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

Darby Translation

If it had not been Jehovah who was for us, when men rose up against us,

Douay-Rheims

In Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

'If it had not been the LORD who was for us, when men rose up against us,

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

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

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

εἰ μὴ ὅτι Κύριος ἦν ἐν ἡμῖν, ἐν τῷ ἐπαναστῆναι ἀνθρώπους ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς,