Psalmorum 124

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

“A song of the degrees by David.” If it had not been the Lord who was for us, so should Israel say;

2 nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis cum exsurgerent in nos homines

If it had not been the Lord who was for us, when men rose up against us:

3 forte vivos degluttissent nos cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos

Then would they have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

4 forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos

Then would the waters have overwhelmed us, the stream would have passed over our soul;

5 torrentem pertransivit anima nostra forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem

Then would have passed over our soul the presumptuous waters.

6 benedictus Dominus qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum

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

7 anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium laqueus contritus est et nos liberati sumus

Our soul is escaped like a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

8 adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini qui fecit caelum et terram

Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.