OFFICE OF THE B.V.M
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PSALM CXXIII
The Church gives glory to God for her deliverance from her enemies
If the Lord had not been with us, now may Israel say: If the Lord had not been with us,
When men rose up against us, peradventure they had swallowed us up alive;
When their fury was enkindled against us, perchance the waters had swallowed us up.
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: peradventure our soul would have passed through overwhelming waters.
Blessed be the Lord, Who hath not given us up to be a prey unto their teeth.
Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers.
The snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Our help is in the name of the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.
Glory be, etc.
