If God Had Not Been on Our Side
Words and music by Martin Luther · tr. composite · 1524
Key of A · 120 BPM · 4/4 · Christian Life,Courage in Affliction,Faithfulness · Ps 124:1-8
Verse 1
If God had not been on our side And had not come to aid us,
The foes with all their pow'r and pride Would surely have dismayed us;
For we, His flock, would have to fear The threat of men both
far and near Who rise in might against us.
Verse 2
Their furious wrath, did God permit, Would surely have consumed us
And as a deep and yawning pit With life and limb entombed us.
Like men o'er whom dark waters roll Their wrath would have engulfed
gulfed our soul And, like a flood, o'erwhelmed us.
Verse 3
Blest be the Lord, who foiled their threat That they could not devour us;
Our souls, like birds, escaped their net, They could not overpow'r us.
The snare is broken we are free! Our help is ever,
Lord, in Thee, Who madest earth and heaven.
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