The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook ‎#P124b

P124b. Now Israel may say, and that truly

1 Now Israel may say, and that truly,
If that the Lord had not our cause maintained,
2 if that the Lord had not our right sustained,
when cruel men who us desired to slay
rose up in wrath, to make of us their prey;

3 Then certainly they had devoured us all,
and swallowed quick, for ought that we could deem;
such was their rage, as we might well esteem.
4 And as fierce floods before them all things drown,
so had they brought our soul to death quite down.

5 The raging streams, with their proud swelling waves,
had then our soul o’erwhelmed in the deep.
6 But blessed be God, who doth us safely keep,
and gave us for a living prey to be
unto their teeth and bloody cruelty.

7 Even as a bird out of the fowler’s snare
escapes away, so is our soul set free:
rest is their net, and thus escaped we.
8 Therefore our help is in the Lord’s great name,
who heaven and earth by his great power did frame.

Text Information

• First Line: Now Israel may say, and that truly
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2004
• Scripture:
  Psalm 124

Tune Information

• Name: OLD 124TH
• Meter: 10 10 10 10
• Key: G Major
• Source: French-Genevan Psalter, 1551