Psalm 123 - 125

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.

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.

A Song of Ascents.

Those who trust in Yahweh

Are as Mount Zion, which will not be shaken but will abide forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

So Yahweh surrounds His people

From now until forever.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous,

So that the righteous would not send forth their hands in unrighteousness.

Do good, O Yahweh, to those who are good

And to those who are upright in their hearts.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,

Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel.