Psalms 124

1 A song of ascents; of David. “If Yahweh had not been on our side,” let Israel say now,

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

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

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

3 then they would have swallowed us up alive when their anger raged against us.

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

4 The water would have swept us away; the torrent would have overwhelmed us.

forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos;

5 Then the raging waters would have drowned us.”

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

6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not allowed us to be torn by their teeth.

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

7 We have escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare has been 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 Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit cælum et terram.