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120 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given unto thee, or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper!

Woe is me that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help!

My help cometh from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

He will not permit thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

122 I was glad when they said unto me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city that is united together,

whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, according to the testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “They shall prosper that love thee.

Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces.”

For my brethren and companions’ sakes I will now say, “Peace be within thee.”

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good.

123 Unto Thee I lift up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until He has mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

124 “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side”—now may Israel say—

“if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us,

then would they have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us;

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

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.”

Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

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

125 They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth, even for ever.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the allotment of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands to do iniquity.

Do good, O Lord, unto those that are good and to them that are upright in their hearts.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; but peace shall be upon Israel.