Livre des Psaumes 123

BIBLES DES PEUPLES	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Cantique des montées. Vers toi j’ai levé les yeux, toi qui sièges au haut des cieux.	1 A Canticle in steps. If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel now say it:
2 Les esclaves ne voient que la main de leur seigneur, et la servante, la main de sa maîtresse; nos yeux à nous sont rivés sur le Seigneur: quand notre Dieu aura-t-il pitié de nous?	2 if the Lord had not been with us, when men rose up against us,
3 Aie pitié de nous, Seigneur, aie pitié: nous en avons plus qu’assez d’être méprisés.	3 perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,
4 Notre âme en a plus qu’assez de ces moqueries des gens à l’aise, de ce mépris des gens supérieurs.	4 perhaps the waters would have engulfed us.
	5 Our soul has passed through a torrent. Perhaps, our soul had even passed through intolerable water.
	6 Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us into the harm of their teeth.
	7 Our soul has been snatched away like a sparrow from the snare of the hunters. The snare has been broken, and we have been freed.
	8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.