If it had not been the Lord... (now let Israel say)
if it had not been the Lord on our side —
say it low, say it low...

If it had not been the Lord — now let Israel say —
if it had not been the Lord when the men came our way,
then they'd have swallowed us quick with the wrath running hot,
taken all that we were, taken all that we'd got.

There was blood on the teeth, there was death in the deep —
had He not stood beside us, we were theirs to keep.

We should not be standing, we should not draw breath —
one step from the swallowing, one inch from the death —
but He would not leave our side...

But the Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
The Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
When the proud waters rose up to take us whole,
He would not give the soul —

no, the snare is broken and we're alive, we're alive,
'cause the Lord, the Lord was on our side!

Then the waters came climbing, and they came up proud,
a black rolling current with no bottom and no ground.
Then the proud waters rose till they went over the soul,
took us down, took us under, took hold.

But blessed be the Lord in the height of the flood —
He reached in the current and He pulled us up.

We should not be standing, we should not draw breath —
one step from the swallowing, one inch from the death —
but He would not leave our side...

But the Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
The Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
When the proud waters rose up to take us whole,
He would not give the soul —

no, the snare is broken and we're alive, we're alive,
'cause the Lord, the Lord was on our side!

Tear the net! (tear it down!)
Break the snare! (break it now!)
Tear the net! (tear it down!)
Break the snare!

Like a bird in the fowler's snare —
caught in the wire, hanging there...
Blessed be the Lord (blessed be the Lord) —
He did not give us to their teeth.

Blessed be the Lord (blessed be the Lord) —
not for a prey, not for the grave to keep.
If it had not been the Lord who was on our side...
tell me where would we be? — swallowed alive.

Then — SNAP —
the snare is broken! (the snare is broken!)
and we are escaped!

But the Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
The Lord was on our side! (on our side!)
When the proud waters rose up to take us whole,
He would not give the soul —

the snare is broken and we're alive, we're alive,
'cause the Lord, the Lord was on our side!
No going back to the deep, no going back to the snare —
we rise, we fly, through the wide-open air,

and the Lord, the Lord was on our side!

Our help is in the name of the Lord — (the name, the name)
the One who made the heaven and the earth.
Our help is in the name of the Lord...
now let Israel say it, let the ransomed say it:

the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our help is in the name of the Lord.