Translations. - The Hundred And Twenty-fourth Psalm. (luther's Song-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEF GHIHJKL MMMMNNO| Were God not with us all the time | A |
| Israel may loud declare it | B |
| Were God not with us all the time | A |
| We must have now despaired | C |
| For we are such a little flock | D |
| Despised by such a crowd of folk | E |
| Who all do set upon us | F |
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| 'Gainst us so angry is their mood | G |
| If God had given them tether | H |
| Us they had swallowed where we stood | I |
| Body and soul together | H |
| We should have been drowned all like those | J |
| O'er whom the waters great did close | K |
| And swept them off relentless | L |
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| Thank God their throat who did not let | M |
| Us swallow when it gaped | M |
| As from a snare a bird doth flit | M |
| So is our soul escaped | M |
| The snare's in two and we are through | N |
| The name of God it standeth true | N |
| The God of earth and heaven Amen | O |
George Macdonald
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