Psalm 120

A Song of Degrees.

¹ In mine affliction I cried to the Lord, and he hearkened to me. ² Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

³ What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for thy crafty tongue? ⁴ Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is ¹prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar. ⁶ My soul has long been a sojourner; ⁷ I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

Psalm 121

A Song of Degrees.

¹ I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come. ² My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth. ³ Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber. ⁴ Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep. ⁵ The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy

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right hand. ⁶ The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night. ⁷ May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul. ⁸ The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.

Psalm 122

A Song of Degrees.

¹ I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. ² Our feet stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem. ³ Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete. ⁴ For thither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. ⁵ For there are set thrones for judgement, even thrones for the house of David.

^{6 2}Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love thee. ⁷ Let peace, I pray, be within thine host, and prosperity in thy palaces. ⁸ For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee. ⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.