“"If the Lord Himself had not been in us, now may Israel say" [Psalm 124:1]...When? "When men rose up against us" [Psalm 124:2]. Marvel not: they have been subdued: for they were men; but the Lord was in us, man was not in us: for men rose up against us. Nevertheless men would crush other men, unless in those men who c…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 124
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2If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
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1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
— Psalms 124:2 —
3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: