Psalm 124 Second Version (Old 124th 10.10.10.10.10.)

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.