1 canticum graduum
Qui confidunt in Domino sicut mons Sion
non commovebitur in aeternum qui habitat
2 in Hierusalem
montes in circuitu eius et Dominus in circuitu populi sui
ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum
3 quia non relinquet virgam peccatorum super sortem
iustorum
ut non extendant iusti ad iniquitatem manus suas
4 benefac Domine bonis et rectis corde
5 declinantes autem in obligationes
adducet Dominus cum operantibus iniquitatem
pax super Israhel
A Song of degrees of David.
1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.