Unless the Lord had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

若不是耶和华帮助我，我就住在寂静之中了。

若不是耶和华帮助我，我早就住在寂静之中了。

若不是耶和华帮助我，我早就住在寂静之中了。

耶和华若不帮助我，我早已归入死亡的沉寂中了。

如果不是耶和华帮助我，我早就不在人世了（“我早就不在人世了”原文作“我早就住在寂静中”）。

要不是耶和华帮助我，我的灵魂早就归入寂静之地了。

若不是耶和華幫助我，我就住在寂靜之中了。

若不是耶和華幫助我，我早就住在寂靜之中了。

若不是耶和華幫助我，我早就住在寂靜之中了。

耶和華若不幫助我，我早已歸入死亡的沉寂中了。

如果不是耶和華幫助我，我早就不在人世了（“我早就不在人世了”原文作“我早就住在寂靜中”）。

若不是永恆主做幫助我的，我就早已住於寂滅中了。

要不是耶和華幫助我，我的靈魂早就歸入寂靜之地了。

微耶和華助我、我則速歸幽寂兮、

如耶和華弗援手。余瀕於死亡兮、

若非主救濟我、我命幾歸幽寂、

若非主相佑。久矣歸冥寂。

Suppose the Lord had not helped me. Then I would soon have been lying quietly in the grave.

If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

Unless the Lord had helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

If the LORD had not been my helper, I would soon rest in the silence of death.

If the Lord had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

Unless the Lord had been my help, My soul would soon have settled in silence.

Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

If the Lord had not been my helper, I would soon rest in the silence of death.

Unless the LORD[ had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

If the Lord had not been on our side— let Israel say—if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us,

Let me not be put to shame, Lord, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead.

Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

I was pushed back and about to fall, but the Lord helped me.

It is not the dead who praise the Lord, those who go down to the place of silence;

Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.I cry to you, Lord; I say,“ You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.

At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion’s mouth.

“ A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us,