Psalmi 123

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Canticum ascensionum. Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in caelis.	1 A Canticle in steps. If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel now say it:
2 Ecce sicut oculi servorum ad manus dominorum suorum, sicut oculi ancillae ad manus dominae suae, ita oculi nostri ad Dominum Deum nostrum, donec misereatur nostri.	2 if the Lord had not been with us, when men rose up against us,
3 Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri, quia multum repleti sumus despectione;	3 perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,
4 quia multum repleta est anima nostra derisione abundantium et despectione superborum.	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.