Psalms 124

1 A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say;

Canticum graduum. Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israël,

2 if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us;

nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis: cum exsurgerent homines in nos,

3 verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

forte vivos deglutissent nos; cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,

4 verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos;

5 Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.

torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.

6 Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum.

7 Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit cælum et terram.