< Psalms 124 >
1 A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was amongst 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 amongst 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 Yes, 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.]