Psalms 124

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.	1 A song of ascents. Of David. I Had not the LORD been with us, let Israel say,
2 Behold as the eyes of the servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.	2 Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose against us,
3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.	3 They would have swallowed us alive, for their fury blazed against us.
4 For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.	4 The waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us;
	5 seething waters would have drowned us.
	6 Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us to be torn by their fangs.
	7 We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler's snare; the snare was broken and we escaped.
	8 Our help is the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.