Psalm 120 - 122

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O Yahweh, Deliver My Soul

A Song of Ascents.

In my distress I called to Yahweh,

And He answered me.

O Yahweh, deliver my soul from a lying lip,

From a deceitful tongue.

What shall He give to you, and what shall He add to you,

O deceitful tongue?

Sharp arrows of the warrior,

With the burning coals of the broom tree.

Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech,

For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Too long has my soul had its dwelling

With those who hate peace.

I am for peace, but when I speak,

They are for war.

My Help Comes from Yahweh

A Song of Ascents.

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;

From where shall my help come?

My help comes from Yahweh,

Who made heaven and earth.

He will not allow your foot to stumble;

He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, He who keeps Israel

Will not slumber and will not sleep.

Yahweh is your keeper;

Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

The sun will not strike you by day,

Nor the moon by night.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in

From now until forever.

Go to the House of Yahweh

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us go to the house of Yahweh.”

Our feet are standing

Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

Jerusalem, which is built

As a city joined altogether;

To which the tribes, the tribes of Yah, go up—

A testimony for Israel—

To give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

For there, thrones sit for judgment,

The thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who love you.

May peace be within your walls,

And tranquility within your palaces.”

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,

I will seek your good.

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