Psalms 121

1 I lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: whence shall my help come?

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

2 My help [cometh] from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

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

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

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

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

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

5 Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;

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

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

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

7 Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy soul.

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

8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.

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

9(not in this translation)

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