123:1 坐在天上的主阿，我向你举目。
To You do I lift up my eyes, You who sit enthroned in heaven.
123:2 看哪，仆人的眼睛怎样望主人的手，使女的眼睛怎样望主母的手，我们的眼睛也照样望耶和华我们的神，直到祂恩待我们。
Behold, as the eyes of the servants Look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a servant girl Look to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to Jehovah our God, Until He is gracious to us.
123:3 耶和华阿，求你恩待我们，恩待我们；因为我们饱受藐视，到了极点。
Be gracious to us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us; For we are greatly filled with contempt.
123:4 我们的魂饱受那些安逸人的讥诮，和骄傲人的藐视，到了极点。
Our soul is greatly filled With the scorn of those who are at ease, With the contempt of the proud.
124:1 以色列人要说，若不是耶和华在我们这边，
If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Oh, let Israel say,
124:2 若不是耶和华在我们这边，当人起来攻击我们，
If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side When men rose up against us;
124:3 向我们发怒的时候，早就把我们活活的吞了；
Then they would have swallowed us up alive When their anger burned against us;
124:4 那时，大水必漫过我们，河水必淹没我们；
Then the waters would have washed us away; The stream would have passed over our soul;
124:5 那时，狂傲的水必淹没我们。
Then the proud waters Would have passed over our soul.
124:6 耶和华是当受颂赞的，祂没有把我们交给敌人，作他们爪牙下的猎物。
Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us As prey to their teeth.
124:7 我们好像雀鸟从捕鸟人的网罗里逃脱；网罗破裂，我们逃脱了。
Our soul has escaped like a bird, Out of the snare of the fowlers; The snare is broken, And we have escaped.
124:8 我们得帮助，是在于造天地之耶和华的名。
Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
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