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Psalm 124 - 2nd Version
Psalm 124
OLD 124TH | Bible Passage
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1650 Scottish Psalter |
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Melody from French-Genevan Psalter, 1551 |
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1 Now Israel
may say, and that truly,
If that the Lord
had not our cause maintained;
2 If that the Lord
had not our right sustained,
When cruel men
who us desired to slay
Rose up in wrath,
to make of us their prey;
3 Then certainly
they had devoured us all,
And swallowed quick,
for ought that we could deem;
Such was their rage,
as we might well esteem.
4 And as fierce floods
before them all things drown,
So had they brought
our soul to death quite down.
5 The raging streams,
with their proud swelling waves,
Had then our soul
o'erwhelmed in the deep.
6 But blessed be God,
who doth us safely keep,
And gave us not
a living prey to be
Unto their teeth
and bloody cruelty.
7 Even as a bird
out of the fowler's snare
Escapes away,
so is our soul set free:
Rent is their net,
and thus escaped we.
8 Therefore our help
is in the Lord's great name,
Who heaven and earth
by his great pow'r did frame.
BIBLE PASSAGE:
1 ¶ If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 ¶ Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
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