Psalms 120

1 A song of ascents. I The LORD answered me when I called in my distress:
2 LORD, deliver me from lying lips, from treacherous tongues.
3 II What will the Lord inflict on you, O treacherous tongue, and what more besides?
4 A warrior's sharpened arrows and fiery coals of brush wood!
5 III Alas, I was an alien in Meshech, I lived near the tents of Kedar!
6 Too long did I live among those who hated peace.
7 When I spoke of peace, they were for war.

Psalms 121

1 A song of ascents. I I raise my eyes toward the mountains. From where will my help come?
2 My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.
3 II God will not allow your foot to slip; your guardian does not sleep.
4 Truly, the guardian of Israel never slumbers nor sleeps.
5 The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade at your righthand.
6 By day the sun cannot harm you, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will guard you from all evil, will always guard your life.
8 The LORD will guard your coming and going both now and forever.

Psalms 122

1 A song of ascents. Of David. I I rejoiced when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the LORD.
2 And now our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem, built as a city, walled round about.
4 Here the tribes have come, the tribes of the LORD, As it was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
5 Here are the thrones of justice, the thrones of the house of David.
6 II For the peace of Jerusalem pray: May those who love you prosper!
7 May peace be within your ramparts, prosperity within your towers.
8 For family and friends I say, May peace be yours.
9 For the house of the LORD, our God, I pray, May blessings be yours.

Psalms 123

1 A song of ascents. To you I raise my eyes, to you enthroned in heaven.
2 Yes, like the eyes of a servant on the hand of his master, Like the eyes of a maid on the hand of her mistress, So our eyes are on the LORD our God, till we are shown favor.
3 Show us favor, LORD, show us favor, for we have our fill of contempt.
4 We have our fill of insult from the insolent, of disdain from the arrogant.

Psalms 124

1 A song of ascents. Of David. I Had not the LORD been with us, let Israel say,
2 Had not the LORD been with us, when people rose against us,
3 They would have swallowed us alive, for their fury blazed against us.
4 The waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us;
5 seething waters would have drowned us.
6 II Blessed be the LORD, who did not leave us to be torn by their fangs.
7 We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler's snare; the snare was broken and we escaped.
8 Our help is the name of the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.

Psalms 125

1 A song of ascents. I Like Mount Zion are they who trust in the LORD, unshakable, forever enduring.
2 As mountains surround Jerusalem, the LORD surrounds his people both now and forever.
3 II The scepter of the wicked will not prevail in the land given to the just, Lest the just themselves turn their hands to evil.
4 III Do good, LORD, to the good, to those who are upright of heart.
5 But those who turn aside to crooked ways may the LORD send down with the wicked. Peace upon Israel!

Psalms 126

1 A song of ascents. I When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, then we thought we were dreaming.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter; our tongues sang for joy. Then it was said among the nations, The LORD had done great things for them.
3 The LORD has done great things for us; Oh, how happy we were!
4 Restore again our fortunes, LORD, like the dry stream beds of the Negeb.
5 II Those who sow in tears will reap with cries of joy.
6 Those who go forth weeping, carrying sacks of seed, Will return with cries of joy, carrying their bundled sheaves.

Psalms 127

1 A song of ascents. Of Solomon. I Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build. Unless the LORD guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.
2 It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night, To eat bread earned by hard toil--all this God gives to his beloved in sleep.
3 II Children too are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb, a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children born in one's youth.
5 Blessed are they whose quivers are full. They will never be shamed contending with foes at the gate.

Psalms 128

1 A song of ascents. I Happy are all who fear the LORD, who walk in the ways of God.
2 What your hands provide you will enjoy; you will be happy and prosper:
3 Like a fruitful vine your wife within your home, Like olive plants your children around your table.
4 Just so will they be blessed who fear the LORD.
5 II May the LORD bless you from Zion, all the days of your life That you may share Jerusalem's joy
6 and live to see your children's children. Peace upon Israel!

Psalms 129

1 A song of ascents. I Much have they oppressed me from my youth, now let Israel say.
2 Much have they oppressed me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed.
3 Upon my back the plowers plowed, as they traced their long furrows.
4 But the just LORD cut me free from the ropes of the yoke of the wicked.
5 II May they be scattered in disgrace, all who hate Zion.
6 May they be like grass on the rooftops withered in early growth,
7 Never to fill the reaper's hands, nor the arms of the binders of sheaves,
8 With none passing by to call out: The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!

Psalms 130

1 A song of ascents. I Out of the depths I call to you, LORD;
2 Lord, hear my cry! May your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, LORD, mark our sins, Lord, who can stand?
4 But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered.
5 II I wait with longing for the LORD, my soul waits for his word.
6 My soul looks for the Lord more than sentinels for daybreak. More than sentinels for daybreak,
7 let Israel look for the LORD, For with the LORD is kindness, with him is full redemption,
8 And God will redeem Israel from all their sins.

Psalms 131

1 A song of ascents. Of David. LORD, my heart is not proud; nor are my eyes haughty. I do not busy myself with great matters, with things too sublime for me.
2 Rather, I have stilled my soul, hushed it like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother's lap, so is my soul within me.
3 Israel, hope in the LORD, now and forever.

Psalms 132

1 A song of ascents. I LORD, remember David and all his anxious care;
2 How he swore an oath to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
3 I will not enter the house where I live, nor lie on the couch where I sleep;
4 I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest,
5 Till I find a home for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.
6 We have heard of it in Ephrathah; we have found it in the fields of Jaar.
7 Let us enter God's dwelling; let us worship at God's footstool.
8 Arise, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your majestic ark.
9 Your priests will be clothed with justice; your faithful will shout for joy.
10 For the sake of David your servant, do not reject your anointed.
11 II The LORD swore an oath to David, a pledge never to be broken: Your own offspring I will set upon your throne.
12 If your sons observe my covenant, the laws I shall teach them, Their sons, in turn, shall sit forever on your throne.
13 Yes, the LORD has chosen Zion, desired it for a dwelling:
14 This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I desire it.
15 I will bless Zion with meat; its poor I will fill with bread.
16 I will clothe its priests with blessing; its faithful shall shout for joy.
17 There I will make a horn sprout for David's line; I will set a lamp for my anointed.
18 His foes I will clothe with shame, but on him my crown shall gleam.

Psalms 133

1 A song of ascents. Of David. How good it is, how pleasant, where the people dwell as one!
2 Like precious ointment on the head, running down upon the beard, Upon the beard of Aaron, upon the collar of his robe.
3 Like dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion. There the LORD has lavished blessings, life for evermore!

Psalms 134

1 A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD Who stand in the house of the LORD through the long hours of night.
2 Lift up your hands toward the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
3 May the LORD who made heaven and earth bless you from Zion.

Psalms 135

1 Hallelujah! I Praise the name of the LORD! Praise, you servants of the LORD,
2 Who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God!
3 Praise the LORD; the LORD is good! Sing to God's name; it is gracious!
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob, Israel as a treasured possession.
5 II I know that the LORD is great, our Lord is greater than all gods.
6 Whatever the LORD wishes he does in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in all the deeps.
7 He raises storm clouds from the end of the earth, makes lightning and rain, brings forth wind from the storehouse.
8 III He struck down Egypt's firstborn, human and beast alike,
9 And sent signs and portents against you, Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 The Lord struck down many nations, slew mighty kings--
11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, Og, king of Bashan, all the kings of Canaan--
12 And made their land a heritage, a heritage for Israel his people.
13 O LORD, your name is forever, your renown, from age to age!
14 For the LORD defends his people, shows mercy to his servants.
15 IV The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
16 They have mouths but speak not; they have eyes but see not;
17 They have ears but hear not; no breath is in their mouths.
18 Their makers shall be like them, all who trust in them.
19 V House of Israel, bless the LORD! House of Aaron, bless the LORD!
20 House of Levi, bless the LORD! You who fear the LORD, bless the LORD!
21 Blessed from Zion be the LORD, who dwells in Jerusalem! Hallelujah!