Psalm 120–124

PSALM 120

O Yahweh, Deliver My Soul

A Song of ^†Ascents.

^1aIn my distress I called to Yahweh,

And He answered me.

²O Yahweh, deliver my soul from a ^alying lip,

From a ^bdeceitful tongue.

³What shall He give to you, and what shall He add to you,

O ^adeceitful tongue?

^4aSharp arrows of the warrior,

With the burning ^bcoals of the broom tree.

⁵Woe is me, for I sojourn in ^aMeshech,

For I dwell among the ^btents of ^cKedar!

⁶Too long has my soul had its dwelling

With those who ^ahate peace.

⁷I ^aam for peace, but when I speak,

They are ^bfor war.

PSALM 121

My Help Comes from Yahweh

A Song of Ascents.

¹I will ^alift up my eyes to ^bthe mountains;

From where shall my help come?

²My ^ahelp comes from Yahweh,

Who ^bmade heaven and earth.

³¹He will not ^aallow your foot to stumble;

²He who ^bkeeps you will not slumber.

⁴Behold, He who keeps Israel

Will not slumber and will not sleep.

⁵Yahweh is your ^akeeper;

Yahweh is your ^bshade on your right hand.

⁶The ^asun will not strike you by day,

Nor the moon by night.

⁷Yahweh will ^akeep you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

⁸Yahweh will ^akeep your going out and your coming in

^bFrom now until forever.

PSALM 122

Go to the House of Yahweh

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us ^ago to the house of Yahweh.”

²Our feet are standing

Within your ^agates, O Jerusalem,

³Jerusalem, which is ^abuilt

As a city ^bjoined altogether;

⁴To which the tribes, the tribes of Yah, ^ago up—

A testimony for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

⁵For there, ^athrones sit for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the ^apeace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who ^blove you.

⁷“May peace be within your ^awalls,

And tranquility within your ^bpalaces.”

⁸For the sake of my ^abrothers and my friends,

I will now say, “^bMay peace be within you.”

⁹For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,

I will ^aseek your good.

PSALM 123

To You I Lift Up My Eyes

A Song of Ascents.

¹To You I ^alift up my eyes,

The One ^benthroned in the heavens!

²Behold, as the eyes of ^aslaves look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a servant-girl to the hand of her mistress,

So our ^beyes look to Yahweh our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

^3aBe gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly saturated ^bwith contempt.

⁴Our soul is greatly saturated

With the ^amockery of ^bthose who are at ease,

And with the ^ccontempt of the proud.

PSALM 124

Yahweh Was on Our Side

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹“^aHad it not been Yahweh who was on our side,”

^bLet Israel now say,

²“Had it not been Yahweh who was on our side

When men rose up against us,

³Then they would have ^aswallowed us alive,

When their ^banger was kindled against us;

⁴Then the ^awaters would have flowed over us,

The stream would have ¹swept over our soul;

⁵Then the ^araging waters would have ¹swept over our soul.”

⁶Blessed be Yahweh,

Who has not given us to be ^aprey for their teeth.

⁷Our soul has ^aescaped ^bas a bird out of the ^csnare of the trapper;

The snare is broken and we have escaped.

⁸Our ^ahelp is in the name of Yahweh,

Who ^bmade heaven and earth.