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Psalm 120
A Song of Ascents.
120:1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
He answered me.
120:2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
120:3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
you deceitful tongue?
120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty,
with coals of juniper.
120:5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
120:6 My soul has had her dwelling too long
with him who hates peace.
120:7 I am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalm 121
A Song of Ascents.
121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills.
Where does my help come from?
121:2 My help comes from Yahweh,
who made heaven and earth.
121:3 He will not allow your foot to be moved.
He who keeps you will not slumber.
121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 Yahweh is your keeper.
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
121:6 The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
121:7 Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
He will keep your soul.
121:8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,
from this time forth, and forevermore.
Psalm 122
A Song of Ascents. By David.
122:1 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
122:2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;
122:3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
122:4 where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,
according to an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
122:5 For there are set thrones for judgment,
the thrones of David’s house.
122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.
122:7 Peace be within your walls,
and prosperity within your palaces.
122:8 For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
122:9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.
Psalm 123
A Song of Ascents.
123:1 To you I do lift up my eyes,
you who sit in the heavens.
123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress;
so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God,
until he has mercy on us.
123:3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us,
for we have endured much contempt.
123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,
with the contempt of the proud.