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{ "title": "Now Israel may say, and that in truth", "author": "", "tune": "Old 124th", "number": "514", "lyrics": "From Psalm 124\n\nNow Israel may say, and that in truth,\nIf that the Lord had not our right maintained,\nIf that the Lord had not with us remained,\nWhen cruel men against us rose to strive,\nWe surely had been swallowed up alive.\n\nYea when their wrath against us fiercely rose,\nThe swelling tide had o'er us spread its wave,\nThe raging stream had then become our grave,\nThe surging flood, in proudly swelling roll,\nMost surely then had overwhelmed our soul.\n\nBlest be the Lord who made us not their prey:\nAs from the snare a bird escapeth free,\nTheir net us rent and so escaped are we:\nOur only help is in Jehovah's Name,\nWho made the earth and all the heav'nly frame.", "first_line": "From Psalm 124" }