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Psalms 124

1 The people of God, escaping a great peril, do acknowledge them selves to be delivered, not by their own force, but by the power of God 4 They declare the greatness of the peril, 6 And praise the Name of God.
¶ A song of degrees, or Psalme of David.
1.If the Lord had not abeen on our side, (maie Israél now say)
2.If the Lord had not been on our side, when men rose up against us,
3.They had then swallowed us up bquickly, when their wrath was kindled against us.
4.Then the cwaters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul:
5.Then had the swelling waters gone over our soul.
6.Praised be the Lord, which hath not given us as a prey unto their teeth.
7.Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the dsnare of the foulers: the snare is broken and we are delivered.
8.Our help is in the Name of the Lord, which hath made heaven and earth.

Notes

1-a.
He shows that God was ready to help at need, and that there was none other way to be saved, but by his only means.
3-b.
So unable were we to resist.
4-c.
He uses most proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of the which God miraculously delivered them.
7-d.
For the wicked did not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.