Religion
Psalm 124
From A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (1638)
Bvt that God fought for us, may Israel say;
But that God fought for us, in that sad Day;
When men inflam'd with wrath; against us rose:
We had alive beene swallowed by our Foes:
Then had we sunke beneath the roaring Waves,
And in their horrid entrailes found our graves:
Then had their violence, like torrents powr'd
From melting Hils, our wretched lives devour'd.
O blest be God! who hath not given our bloud
To quench their thirst, nor made our flesh their food.
Our Soules, like Birds, have scap't the Fowlers Net;
The snares are broke, which for our lives were set.
Our onely confidence is in his Name,
Who made the Earth, and Heavens immortall frame.
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