Mezmurlar 123

¹Basamaklar ezgisi. "Eğer Rab aramızda olmasaydı," desin şimdi İsrail;

²"Eğer Rab aramızda olmasaydı, insanlar bize karşı ayaklandığında,

³Şüphesiz, bize karşı öfkeleri alevlendiğinde bizi diri diri yutarlardı;

⁴Şüphesiz su bizi boğar, canımız sel yatağından geçerdi;

⁵Şüphesiz canımız o karşı durulamaz suların içinden geçerdi."

⁶Bizi onların dişlerine av olarak vermeyen Rabbe övgüler olsun!

⁷Canımız, avcıların tuzağından kurtarılan bir serçe gibi kurtuldu; tuzak parçalandı ve biz kurtarıldık.

⁸Yardımımız, göğü ve yeri yaratan Rabbin adındadır.

¹᾿ῼδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν. - ΕΙ ΜΗ ὅτι Κύριος ἦν ἐν ἡμῖν, εἰπάτω δὴ ᾿Ισραήλ·

²εἰ μὴ ὅτι Κύριος ἦν ἐν ἡμῖν ἐν τῷ ἐπαναστῆναι ἀνθρώπους ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς,

³ἄρα ζῶντας ἂν κατέπιον ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ ὀργισθῆναι τὸν θυμὸν αὐτῶν ἐφ᾿ ἡμᾶς·

⁴ἄρα τὸ ὕδωρ ἂν κατεπόντισεν ἡμᾶς, χείμαρρον διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν·

⁵ἄρα διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἀνυπόστατον.

⁶εὐλογητὸς Κύριος, ὃς οὐκ ἔδωκεν ἡμᾶς εἰς θήραν τοῖς ὀδοῦσιν αὐτῶν.

⁷ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν ὡς στρουθίον ἐρρύσθη ἐκ τῆς παγίδος τῶν θηρευόντων· ἡ παγὶς συνετρίβη, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐρρύσθημεν.

⁸ἡ βοήθεια ἡμῶν ἐν ὀνόματι Κυρίου τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.

¹[A Song of Degrees:] If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say;

²if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us;

³verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

⁴verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

⁵Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.

⁶Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

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

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