If the Lord had [not] been on our side, when men rose up against us,

They had then swallowed us up [a]quick, when their wrath was kindled against us.

Then the [b]waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul:

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 124:3 So unable were we to resist.
  2. Psalm 124:4 He useth most proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of the which God miraculously delivered them.

if the Lord had not been on our side
    when people attacked us,
they would have swallowed us alive
    when their anger flared against us;
the flood(A) would have engulfed us,
    the torrent(B) would have swept over us,

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