Psalms 124

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 A song of ascents. Of David. I Had not the LORD been with us, let Israel say,	1 To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.
2 Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose against us,	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.
3 They would have swallowed us alive, for their fury blazed against us.	3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.
4 The waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us;	4 For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
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.