Chapter 123

The Church, and holy members thereof, are always protected by God: 5. The wicked being suffered for a while, are at last punished.

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   Agradual Canticle. But that our Lord was in us, let Israel now say,

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   but that our Lord was in us. When men rose up against us,

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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.