Psalm 124 in full. Tune: Old 124th

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Psalm 124
"But praise the LORD, for he has set us free and has not left us to their cruelty."
Tune: Old 124th
Another version: https://youtu.be/YK-6cp9JmqE
There is music for Old 124th with a descant here: https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_f0n8/page/236/mode/1up
https://youtu.be/eUw8yqvDIas
St. Peter's Free Church, Dundee
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondence.
images: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun - Henry John Stock (Revelation 12)
The Revelation passage also includes themes of anger, drowning waters, devouring and escape by flight. The passage was suggested by Sinclair B. Ferguson: https://stpeters-dundee.sermon.net/main/main/20103613

Source and also Bob Akroyd's sermon on Psalm 124 from St. Peter's:
https://www.youtube.com/live/hSlvu0Oxat8?si=mgOny2PpUFPPLQUP

A Song of Ascents; of David
PSALM 124 10 10 10 10 10

1 If God the LORD had not been on our side—
2 Let Isr’el say—had not the LORD been near
3 When foes attacked us, filling us with fear,
And when their wrath against us reached its height,
Alive we had been swallowed in their spite.

4 We would have been enveloped by the flood;
Over our heads the torrent would have gone;
5 The waters would have carried us along.
6 But praise the LORD, for he has set us free
And has not left us to their cruelty.

7 We have escaped—just as a captured bird
Out of the fowler’s net has been set free;
The snare is cut, we are at liberty.
8 Our help is in the name of God the LORD
Who made the earth and heavens by his word.

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