Psalmi 123

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Canticum graduum. Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israël,	1 [Song of Ascents] I lift up my eyes to you who are enthroned in heaven.
2 nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis : cum exsurgerent homines in nos,	2 Just as the eyes of slaves are on their masters' hand, or the eyes of a slave-girl on the hand of hermistress, so our eyes are on Yahweh our God, for him to take pity on us.
3 forte vivos deglutissent nos ; cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,	3 Have pity on us, Yahweh, have pity, for we have had our full share of scorn,
4 forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos ;	4 more than our share of jeers from the complacent. (Scorn is for the proud.)
5 torrentem pertransivit anima nostra ; forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.
6 Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum.
7 Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium ; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus.
8 Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit cælum et terram.