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# Psalm 123 (124)

Psalm 123 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 124 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 8 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Nisi quia Domini. The church giveth glory to God for her deliverance, from the hands of her enemies.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 123 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Canticle in steps. If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel now say it:
2. if the Lord had not been with us, when men rose up against us,
3. perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,
4. perhaps the waters would have engulfed us.
5. Our soul has passed through a torrent. Perhaps, our soul had even passed through intolerable water.
6. Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us into the harm of their teeth.
7. Our soul has been snatched away like a sparrow from the snare of the hunters. The snare has been broken, and we have been freed.
8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

## Psalm 123 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Canticum graduum. Nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis, dicat nunc Israël,
2. nisi quia Dominus erat in nobis: cum exsurgerent homines in nos,
3. forte vivos deglutissent nos; cum irasceretur furor eorum in nos,
4. forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos;
5. torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; forsitan pertransisset anima nostra aquam intolerabilem.
6. Benedictus Dominus, qui non dedit nos in captionem dentibus eorum.
7. Anima nostra sicut passer erepta est de laqueo venantium; laqueus contritus est, et nos liberati sumus.
8. Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini, qui fecit cælum et terram.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 287: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Dec 28, 2026: Holy Innocents, Martyrs — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8
- Mon, Jul 12, 2027 (computed): Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8
- Wed, Oct 20, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8
- Tue, Dec 28, 2027 (computed): Holy Innocents, Martyrs — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. Mass citations number the Psalms in the Hebrew way.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).