Psalm 120–124

Psalm 120

A Song of Ascents.

¹In my distress I cried unto Jehovah,

And he answered me.

²Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips,

And from a deceitful tongue.

³What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee,

Thou deceitful tongue?

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty,

With coals of juniper.

⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech,

That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶My soul hath long had her dwelling

With him that hateth peace.

⁷I am for peace:

But when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121

A Song of Ascents.

¹I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains:

From whence shall my help come?

²My help cometh from Jehovah,

Who made heaven and earth.

³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:

He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴Behold, he that keepeth Israel

Will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵Jehovah is thy keeper:

Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.

⁶The sun shall not smite thee by day,

Nor the moon by night.

⁷Jehovah will keep thee from all evil;

He will keep thy soul.

⁸Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in

From this time forth and for evermore.

Psalm 122

A Song of Ascents; of David.

¹I was glad when they said unto me,

Let us go unto the house of Jehovah.

²Our feet are standing

Within thy gates, O Jerusalem,

³Jerusalem, that art builded

As a city that is compact together;

⁴Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah,

For an ordinance for Israel,

To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.

⁵For there are set thrones for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

They shall prosper that love thee.

⁷Peace be within thy walls,

And prosperity within thy palaces.

⁸For my brethren and companions’ sakes,

I will now say, Peace be within thee.

⁹For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God

I will seek thy good.

Psalm 123

A Song of Ascents.

¹Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes,

O thou that sittest in the heavens.

²Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress;

So our eyes look unto Jehovah our God,

Until he have mercy upon us.

³Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us;

For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled

With the scoffing of those that are at ease,

And with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124

A Song of Ascents; of David.

¹If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side,

Let Israel now say,

²If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side,

When men rose up against us;

³Then they had swallowed us up alive,

When their wrath was kindled against us;

⁴Then the waters had overwhelmed us,

The stream had gone over our soul;

⁵Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

⁶Blessed be Jehovah,

Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:

The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

⁸Our help is in the name of Jehovah,

Who made heaven and earth.