Psalm 122 - 124

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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.

To You I Lift Up My Eyes

A Song of Ascents.

To You I lift up my eyes,

The One enthroned in the heavens!

Behold, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,

As the eyes of a servant‑girl to the hand of her mistress,

So our eyes look to Yahweh our God,

Until He is gracious to us.

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly saturated with contempt.

Our soul is greatly saturated

With the mockery of those who are at ease,

And with the contempt of the proud.

Yahweh Was on Our Side

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

“Had it not been Yahweh who was on our side,”

Let Israel now say,

“Had it not been Yahweh who was on our side

When men rose up against us,

Then they would have swallowed us alive,

When their anger was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have flowed over us,

The stream would have swept over our soul;

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

Blessed be Yahweh,

Who has not given us to be prey for their teeth.

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;

The snare is broken and we have escaped.

Our help is in the name of Yahweh,

Who made heaven and earth.

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