- A song of degrees,
or Psalme of Dauid.
- 1
- If the Lord had not bene on our side, (may Israel now say)
- 2
- If the Lord had not bene on our side, when men rose vp against vs,
- 3
- They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.
- 4
- Then the waters had drowned vs, and the streame had gone ouer our soule:
- 5
- Then had the swelling waters gone ouer our soule.
- 6
- Praysed be the Lord, which hath not giuen vs as a praye vnto their teeth.
- 7
- Our soule is escaped, euen as a bird out of the snare of the foulers: the snare is broken, and we are deliuered.
- 8
- Our helpe is in the Name of the Lorde, which hath made heauen and earth.
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