[A Song of Degrees.][1]If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say;[2]if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us;[3]verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:[4]verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.[5]Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.[6]Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.[7]Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.[8]Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
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