A Covenanter’s Psalm

Lyrics

Now Israel may say, and that truly If that the Lord Had not our cause maintained If that the Lord Had not our right sustained When cruel men Who us desired to slay Rose up in wrath To make of us their prey; Then certainly they had devoured us all And swallowed quick For ought that we could deem; Such was their rage As we might well esteem And as fierce floods Before them all things drown So had they brought Our soul to death quite down The raging streams With their proud swelling waves Had then our soul O'erwhelmed in the deep But blessed be God Who doth us safely keep And gave us not A living prey to be Unto their teeth And bloody cruelty Even as a bird Out of the fowler's snare Escapes away So is our soul set free: Rent is their net And thus escaped we Therefore our help Is in the Lord's great name Who heaven and earth By his great power did frame