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 huic David nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis dicat nunc Israhel

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 in nos homines

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

forte vivos degluttissent 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.

adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini qui fecit caelum et terram