123 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ I raise my eyes to you,
whose throne is in heaven.
² As a servant looks to the hand of his master,
or a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes turn to Adonai our God,
until he has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, Adonai, have mercy;
for we have had our fill of contempt,
⁴ more than our fill of scorn from the complacent
and contempt from the arrogant.

124 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents. By David:

⁽¹⁾ If Adonai hadn’t been for us —
let Isra’el repeat it —
² If Adonai hadn’t been for us
when people rose to attack us,
³ then, when their anger blazed against us,
they would have swallowed us alive!
⁴ Then the water would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us.
⁵ Yes, the raging water
would have swept right over us.

⁶ Blessed be Adonai, who did not leave us
to be a prey for their teeth!
⁷ We escaped like a bird from the hunter’s trap;
the trap is broken, and we have escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of Adonai,
the maker of heaven and earth.