Psalm 121

¹A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He answered me.

¹A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

²³Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the Lord our God.

³And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁶“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”

¹A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

¹³For I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

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

⁶So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

²⁸Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

²⁹He gives power to the faint and increases the strength of the weak.

⁵Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

⁶the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

²⁶for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.

²³Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.

⁹He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

¹²They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

⁹He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.

³I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

¹A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the Lord protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

³I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

²⁷At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”

¹⁶When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—

¹Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?

⁴For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²¹And the Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

⁸I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

⁵Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

⁶a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

³¹For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

¹⁶‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

¹⁰They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

⁵You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

⁶nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

⁸As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

¹⁸And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁹Because you have made the Lord your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—

¹⁰no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.

²The Lord will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.

²¹No harm befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

²⁰The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

¹⁹He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

⁶You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁸to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

⁶in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

²Blessed be the name of the Lord both now and forevermore.

³¹On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.

¹⁸But it is we who will bless the Lord, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!