The Psalmes of David The King And Prophet, And Of other holy Prophets, paraphas'd in English: Conferred with the Hebrew Veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee Paraphrase. By R. B. [i.e. Richard Brathwait] |
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Psal. 124. Nisi quia Dominus.
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Psal. 124. Nisi quia Dominus.
Canticum Graduum Davidis.
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Except the Lord for us had been,may Israel now say:
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Had not the Lord their pride fore-seen,whose powers against us lay:
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Then had they swallow'd us alive,when kindled was their rage,
In vaine had been for us to strive,
their fury to asswage.
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The flouds had drown'd us every one,so fiercely did they flow:
Above our soule the surge had gone,
so mighty did it grow.
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We had been covered in this cloud,the waters proud-controule,
The swelling waters of the proud
had over-gone our soule.
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Blest be the Lord, that them withstood,and frustrate sent away;
That hath not given our guiltlesse blood
unto their teeth a prey.
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Our soule is as a bird escap'tout of the Fowlers snare:
The snare is broke that us entrap't,
and we delivered are.
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The help, whereon our hopes depend,is in th' Eternals Name:
He that our help to us doth send,
the Heavens and Earth did frame.
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