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Psalms 121

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 120 Psalms 122

¹I will lift up my eyes to the hills.

²My help comes from Yahweh,

³He will not allow your foot to be moved.

⁴Behold, he who keeps Israel

⁵Yahweh is your keeper.

⁶The sun will not harm you by day,

⁷Yahweh will keep you from all evil.

⁸Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,

¹I will lift up my eyes to the hills.

²My help comes from Yahweh,

³He will not allow your foot to be moved.

⁴Behold, he who keeps Israel

⁵Yahweh is your keeper.

⁶The sun will not harm you by day,

⁷Yahweh will keep you from all evil.

⁸Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,

¹I will lift up my eyes to the hills.

²My help comes from Yahweh,

³He will not allow your foot to be moved.

⁴Behold, he who keeps Israel

⁵Yahweh is your keeper.

⁶The sun will not harm you by day,

⁷Yahweh will keep you from all evil.

⁸Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,

In context

Psalms 121 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

³What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty,

⁵Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,

⁶My soul has had her dwelling too long

⁷I am for peace,

Immediately after

¹I was glad when they said to me,

²Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!

³Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,

⁴where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes,

⁵For there are set thrones for judgment,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,