Psalm 123–125

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.

Psalm 125

A Song of Ascents.

¹They that trust in Jehovah

Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.

²As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,

So Jehovah is round about his people

From this time forth and for evermore.

³For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;

That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

⁴Do good, O Jehovah, unto those that are good,

And to them that are upright in their hearts.

⁵But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways,

Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel.