Say it out loud, Israel, and keep saying it: we would not be standing here on our own. When the anger of others came up at us, we would have gone down whole into it. The water would have closed over our heads; the proud current would have carried us off. But we were never handed across to be torn; we were not left between their teeth. The net came apart and the bird went free, and that is what happened to us. The name of the Lord is what held, the One who made the sky and the ground.