Psalms 124

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

canticum graduum huic David nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis dicat nunc Israhel

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 in nos homines

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

forte vivos degluttissent 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.

adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini qui fecit caelum et terram