"If God Himself Be for Me"

Last week, I discovered an-other Biblical source for "If God Himself Be for Me."  The first two lines of the hymn are "If God Himself be for me, / I may a host defy," which seem to paraphrase the first half of Psalm 18:29:  "For by you I can run against a troop."

[Here are links to my original post on the Biblical sources and a later addendum.]