Chapter 123

The whole Church, and every just person, gratefully confesseth, that by God's protection they are secure, without which none could escape ruin.

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   A gradual Canticle. But that our Lord was in us, let Israel now say, was in us. When men rose up against us,

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   but that our Lord

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   perhaps they had swallowed us alive: When their fury was angry against us,

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   perhaps water had swallowed us.

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   Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through an intolerable water.

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   Blessed be our Lord which hath not given us for a prey to their teeth.

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

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   Our Help is in the name of our Lord, who made heaven and earth.