Psalms 123

¹A gradual Canticle. But that our Lord was in us, let Israel now say,

²but that our Lord was in us. When men rose up against us,

³perhaps they had swallowed us alive: When their fury was angry against us,

⁴perhaps water had swallowed us.

⁵Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through an intolerable water.

⁶Blessed be our Lord which hath not given us for a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul as a sparrow is delivered from the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁸Our help is in the name of our Lord, who made heaven and earth.