Psalms 124

1 [A Song of Ascents. By David.] If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, let Israel now say,

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

2 if it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis cum exsurgerent in nos homines

3 then 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 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos

5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

torrentem pertransivit anima nostra forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem

6 Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

benedictus Dominus qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum

7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have 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 Jehovah, who made heaven and earth.

adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini qui fecit caelum et terram