If the Lord himself had not been on our side (William Knapp)

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• CPDL #24226:  Sibelius 6

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2011-08-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The parts are identified in the source (at the start of this anthem) as Cantus - Medius - Tenor - Bass: the Medius part is printed in the alto clef. Indications of voicing for solos, which have been added to the present edition where given in square brackets, are absent from the source, where the voicing is clearly shown by the presence of all four staves throughout the piece, with rests for the other three parts in each solo. The natural on the C in the tenor part in the second half of beat 2, bar 11 is editorial: this note has no accidental in the source.

General Information

Title: If the Lord himself had not been on our side
Composer: William Knapp

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1738

Description: An anthem by William Knapp, from pages 71-76 of the first edition of his collection A Sett of New Psalm-Tunes and Anthems (1738), where it is headed 'An Anthem Ps. 124^th for the 5^th of November'.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 124.

English text

If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say;
If the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;
They had swallowed us up quick:
Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul.
But praised be the Lord: our soul is escaped,
Even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler:
The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Our help standeth in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.