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123 Canticum graduum. Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israel,

nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis: cum exsurgerent homines in nos,

forte vivos deglutissent nos; cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,

forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos;

torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.

Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum.

Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus.

Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit caelum et terram.

Psalm 123

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to you,
    to you who sit enthroned(A) in heaven.
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord(B) our God,
    till he shows us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us,
    for we have endured no end of contempt.
We have endured no end
    of ridicule from the arrogant,
    of contempt from the proud.