Psalms 120-121

Psalm 120

¹A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he answered me.

²Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

³What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶My soul hath long had her dwelling with him that hateth peace.

⁷I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 121

¹A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?

²My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

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

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

⁵The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

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

⁷The LORD shall keep thee from all evil; he shall keep thy soul.

⁸The LORD shall keep thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for evermore.