Psalms 124

1 A Song of Ascents; of David. 'If it had not been the LORD who was for us', let Israel now say;

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

2 'If it had not been the LORD who was for us, when men rose up against us,

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

3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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

4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul;

forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos;

5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.'

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

6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

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

7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

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.]