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| Background: Illustration: Perch of a common house sparrow. (Photograph copyright Laurie Campbell/Natural History Photographic Agency.) |
| A Song of degrees of David |
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: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had over-whelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. |
| PSALM CXXIV |
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