¹In my  ²distress I called out to Jehovah,
And He answered me.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lying lips,
From a tongue of deceit.

What should be given to you,
And what further shall be done to you,
O tongue of deceit?

The sharp arrows of a mighty man,
With the burning coals of the broom tree!

Woe is me, for I sojourn in  ¹Meshech,
I dwell among the tents of  ¹Kedar.

Long has my soul had its dwelling
With him who hates peace.

I am for peace; but when I speak,
They are for war.

A Song of Ascents

 ¹I will lift up my eyes to the  ²hills.
From where will my help come?

My help comes from Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, Israel's Keeper
Will neither slumber nor sleep.

Jehovah is your Keeper;
Jehovah is your shade at your right hand.

The sun will not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.

Jehovah will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.

Jehovah will keep your going out and your coming in
From now and to eternity.

A Song of Ascents. Of David

I rejoiced when they said to me,
Let us go to the  ¹house of Jehovah.

Our feet  ¹are standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem has been built as a city
That has been compacted together;

To which the tribes  ¹go up,
The tribes of  ²Jehovah —
A testimony for Israel —
To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.

For there thrones are set for judgment,
Thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Those who love you will prosper.

Peace be within your bulwarks,
And prosperity within your citadels.

For my brothers' and companions' sake I will now say,
Peace be within you.

For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God
I will seek your good.

A Song of Ascents

To You do I lift up my eyes,
You who sit enthroned in heaven.

Behold, as the eyes of the servants
Look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a servant girl
Look to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to Jehovah our God,
Until He is  ¹gracious to us.

Be gracious to us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us;
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Our soul is greatly filled
With the scorn of those who are at ease,
With the contempt of the proud.

A Song of Ascents. Of David

 ¹If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side,
Let Israel say,

If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side
When men rose up against us;

Then they would have swallowed us up alive
When their anger burned against us;

Then the waters would have washed us away;
The stream would have passed over our soul;

Then the  ¹proud waters
Would have passed over our soul.

Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us
As prey to their teeth.

Our soul has escaped like a bird,
Out of the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken,
And we have escaped.

Our help is in the name of Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.