Psalms 122-124

Psalm 122

¹A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”

²Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!

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

⁴where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the LORD’s name.

⁵For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

⁷Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

⁸For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

⁹For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Psalm 123

¹A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

²Behold, 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 the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

³Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124

¹A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

²if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

³then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,

⁴then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.

⁵Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

⁸Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.