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Translations. - The Hundred And Twenty-Fourth Psalm. (Luther's Song-Book.)

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Were God not with us all the time--     Israel may loud declare it--     Were God not with us all the time,     We must have now despaired;     For we are such a little flock     Despised by such a crowd of folk,     Who all do set upon us!     'Gainst us so angry is their mood,     If God had given them tether     Us they had swallowed where we stood,     Body and soul together.     We should have been drowned all, like those     O'er whom the waters great did close,     And swept them off relentless.     Thank God! their throat who did not let     Us swallow when it gaped;     As from a snare a bird doth flit     So is our soul escaped.     The snare's in two, and we are through:     The name of God it standeth true,     The God of earth and heaven. Amen.

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