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Psalm 124
1599 Geneva Bible

124 The people of God, escaping a great peril, do acknowledge themselves to be delivered, not by their own force, but by the power of God. 4 They declare the greatness of the peril. 6 And praise the Name of God.

A song of degrees, or Psalm of David.

1 If the Lord had not been [a]on our side, (may Israel now say)

2 If the Lord had [not] been on our side, when men rose up against us,

3 They had then swallowed us up [b]quick, when their wrath was kindled against us.

4 Then the [c]waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul:

5 Then had the swelling waters gone over our soul.

6 Praised be the Lord, which hath not given us as a prey unto their teeth.

7 Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the [d]snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

8 Our help is in the Name of the Lord, which hath made heaven and earth.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 124:1 He showeth that God was ready to help at need, and that there was none other way to be saved, but by his only means.
  2. Psalm 124:3 So unable were we to resist.
  3. Psalm 124:4 He useth most proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of the which God miraculously delivered them.
  4. Psalm 124:7 For the wicked did not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.
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Psalm 124

A song of ascents. Of David.

1 If the Lord had not been on our side—
    let Israel say(A)—
2 if the Lord had not been on our side
    when people attacked us,
3 they would have swallowed us alive
    when their anger flared against us;
4 the flood(B) would have engulfed us,
    the torrent(C) would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters
    would have swept us away.

6 Praise be to the Lord,
    who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird
    from the fowler’s snare;(D)
the snare has been broken,(E)
    and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name(F) of the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven(G) and earth.

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