 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us : 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters...  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 704edited by - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Philip Henry - 1848 - 204 pages
...in duty. When they are an obligation upon us to trust in God in other straits: "Wait on the Lord." If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, " the waters had overwhelmed us." " Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth."... | |
 | 1849 - 558 pages
...A Song of degrees of David. IF it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say ; 2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us : 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us : 4 Then the waters... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 616 pages
...boast in God, who, in the day of trouble, covered us with VOL. in. 8 the shield of his omnipotence. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Americans say, if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education - 1849 - 640 pages
...however imperfectly, to serve him. In times of extremity, his cloud and his pillar have gone before us. " If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say : if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us,... | |
 | James Bowden - Society of Friends - 1850 - 494 pages
...known only to Him who seeth and knoweth all things. With ancient Israel, they could feelingly say, " If it had not been the Lord, who was on our side, when men rose up against us, then had they swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us : then the waters had overwhelmed... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1850 - 496 pages
...flood overflow me, Neither let the deep swallow me up.' — Psalm Ixix. 15. ' If the Lord had not bcen on our side, When men rose up against us; Then they had swallowed us up alive, Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul.' — Psalm cxxiv. 2 —... | |
 | Emmanuel Levinas - Religion - 1994 - 248 pages
...238-42.] 13 Curiously, the expression 'would swallow each other alive' can be found in Psalms 124: 2-3: 'If it had not been the Lord who was on our side ..., they would have swallowed us up alive'. The State, even the Roman State, is worthy of expressions... | |
 | W. Jeffrey Bolster - History - 1997 - 360 pages
...maintain seafaring as a pillar of free black society. 7. FREE SAILORS AND THE STRUGGLE WITH SLAVERY // it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed MS up ... Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. PSALM 124 DURING THE... | |
 | Othmar Keel - History - 1997 - 454 pages
...its wings extended over the numtn of the earth-mountain, must almost certainly symbolize the sky. II. "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us, . . . then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us; then over us would have gone... | |
 | Elizabeth Rice Achtemeier - Religion - 1998 - 160 pages
...legitimate, because finally it is a celebration of God's victory over evil. As the Psalmist sings, If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us up alive, God works his justice in the world and destroys his enemies. The... | |
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