New Song, Luther's If God Had Not Been On Our Side

Here is Grace’s Recording for Sunday

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On August 11th 2024 we are singing
”If God Had Not Been On Our Side”

This is a song of Martin Luther.
We are using an updated tune

Martin Luther, 1483-1546; tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, St. Louis, 1941, alt.
Tune: Christian Egenolff, 1502-1555
adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams, from Enlarged Songs of Praise
Arr: Koiné

1. If God had not been on our side and had not come to aid us,

our foes with all their pow'r and pride would surely have dismayed us,

for we, his flock, would have to fear the devil's wolves, both far and near,

.… who rise in might against us.

Their furious wrath, did God permit, Would surely have consumed us

And as a deep and yawning pit With life and limb entombed us.

A hellish storm would o'er us roll From Satan, who desires our soul

And seeks to overwhelm us.

3. Blest be the LORD, who foiled their threat that they could not devour us.

Our souls, like birds, escaped their net; they could not overpow'r us.

The snare is broken— we are free! Our helper and our strength is he

…. who made the earth and heavens.

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