Psalm 119–123

Psalm 119

In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

²O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

³What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

⁴The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

⁵Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:

⁶My soul hath been long a sojourner.

⁷With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

Psalm 120

I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

²My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

³May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

⁴Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

⁵The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

⁶The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

⁷The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

⁸May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

Psalm 121

¹A gradual canticle.

²Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

³Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

⁴For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

⁵Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

⁶Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.

⁷Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

⁸For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

⁹Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

Psalm 122

To thee have I lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven.

²Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, As the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until he have mercy on us.

³Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.

⁴For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.

Psalm 123

¹I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

²If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

³Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

⁴Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

⁵Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

⁶Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.