Our Help Is in the Name of the LORD

1A song of high degrees, of Dauid. If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say:

2(124:1) if God him self had not ben of our side when men rose vp against vs,

3(124:2) Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.

4(124:3) Then the waters had drowned vs: the running streame had flowed ouer our soule.

5(124:4) Then the waters of the proude: had flowed ouer our soule.

6(124:5) But blessed be God, whiche hath not geuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth.

7(124:6) Our soule is escaped, euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler: the snare is broken, and we be escaped.

8(124:7) Our helpe is in the name of God: who hath made heauen and earth.