Day 27 of 30

Ps 120:1–130:8

120:1 In my distress, I cried to the Lord. He answered me.

120:2 Deliver my soul, Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

120:3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

120:5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

120:6 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

120:7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

121:2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

121:3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

121:5 The Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade on your right hand.

121:6 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

121:7 The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

121:8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore.

122:1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the Lord's house!"

122:2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

122:3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

122:4 where the tribes go up, even the tribes of Yah, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

122:5 For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

122:7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

122:8 For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you."

122:9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

123:1 To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

123:2 Behold, 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.

123:3 Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

124:1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, let Israel now say,

124:2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

124:3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

124:4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

124:5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

124:6 Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

124:7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

124:8 Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

125:1 Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which can't be moved, but remains forever.

125:2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.

125:3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

125:4 Do good, Lord, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

125:5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The Lord will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

126:1 When the Lord brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

126:2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them."

126:3 The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad.

126:4 Restore our fortunes again, Lord, like the streams in the Negev.

126:5 Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

126:6 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

127:1 Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

127:2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

127:3 Behold, children are a heritage of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

127:5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

128:1 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways.

128:2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

128:3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

128:4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord.

128:5 May the Lord bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

128:6 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

129:1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

129:2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

129:3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

129:4 The Lord is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

129:5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

129:6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

129:7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

129:8 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the Lord be on you. We bless you in the name of the Lord."

130:1 Out of the depths I have cried to you, Lord.

130:2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

130:3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

130:5 I wait for the Lord. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

130:6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

130:7 Israel, hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

130:8 He will redeem Israel from all their sins.