Psalm 120–123

Psalm 120

*A Song of degrees.

1  In amy distress I cried unto the Lord,

And he heard me.

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

*And from a deceitful tongue.

3  ||What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be †done unto thee,

Thou false tongue?

4  ||bSharp arrows of the cmighty,

With coals of ejuniper.

5  Woe is me, that I sojourn in fMesech,

That I dwell in the tents of gKedar!

6  My soul hath hlong dwelt

With him that hateth peace.

7  iI am ||for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121

*A Song of degrees.

1  ||I will alift up mine eyes unto aathe hills,

From whence cometh my help.

2  bMy help cometh from the Lord,

cWhich made heaven and earth.

3  He will not suffer dthy foot to be moved:

He that ekeepeth thee will not fslumber.

4  Behold, he that ekeepeth Israel

Shall neither fgslumber nor sleep.

5  The Lord is thy ekeeper:

The Lord is thy hshade iupon thy right hand.

6  kThe sun shall not lsmite thee by day,

Nor the moon by night.

7  The Lord shall epreserve thee from all evil:

He shall empreserve thy soul.

8  The Lord shall epreserve nthy going out and thy coming in

From this time forth, and even for evermore.

Psalm 122

*A Song of degrees †of David.

1  I was glad when they said unto me,

Let us go ainto the house of the Lord.

2  Our feet shall stand

Within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

3  Jerusalem is bbuilded

As a city that cis compact together:

4  dWhither the tribes go up, the tribes of the eLord,

Unto fthe testimony of Israel,

To give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

5  For gthere †are set thrones of judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

6  hPray for the peace of Jerusalem:

They shall prosper that love thee.

7  Peace be within thy iwalls,

And prosperity within thy ipalaces.

8  For my brethren and companions’ sakes,

I will now say, kPeace be within thee.

9  Because of the house of the Lord our God

I will lseek thy good.

Psalm 123

*A Song of degrees.

1  Unto thee alift I up mine eyes,

O thou that bdwellest in the heavens.

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

And as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress;

So our eyes wait upon the Lord our God,

Until that he have mercy upon us.

3  cHave mercy upon us, O Lord, chave mercy upon us:

For we are dexceedingly filled with econtempt.

4  Our soul is exceedingly filled

With the fscorning of gthose that are at ease,

And with the econtempt of the proud.