Setting
If God the LORD had not been on our side—
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The words
If God the LORD had not been on our side— Let Isr’el say—had not the LORD been near When foes attacked us, filling us with fear, And when their wrath against us reached its height, Alive we had been swallowed in their spite.
We would have been enveloped by the flood; Over our heads the torrent would have gone; The waters would have carried us along. But praise the LORD, for he has set us free And has not left us to their cruelty.
We have escaped—just as a captured bird Out of the fowler’s net has been set free; The snare is cut, we are at liberty. Our help is in the name of God the LORD Who made the earth and heavens by his word.
Source & provenance
Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter
An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.
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- Base edition
- Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
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- Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
- Editing
- unedited transcription
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- rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
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Old 124th
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