154) Psalm 124 (2nd Version)

Psalm 124 (2nd Version) A Song of degrees of David.

10.10.10.10.10 1 Now Israel may say, and that truly, If that the Lord had not our cause maintain’d;

2 If that the Lord had not our right sustain’d, When cruel men against us furiously Rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey;

3 Then certainly they had devour’d us all, And swallow’d 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 great deep.

6 But bless’d be God, who doth us safely keep, And hath not giv’n us for a living prey Unto their teeth, and bloody cruelty.

7 Ev’n as a bird out of the fowler’s snare Escapes away, so is our soul set free:

Broke are their nets, and thus escaped we.

8 Therefore our help is in the Lord’s great name, Who heav’n and earth by his great pow’r did frame.

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