Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Clementine Vulgate
Psalms 123
1Canticum graduum. [Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Isral, 2nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis: cum exsurgerent homines in nos, 3forte vivos deglutissent nos; cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos, 4forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos; 5torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem. 6Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum. 7Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus. 8Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit clum et terram.]
Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.