1 To the head of the choir. On the gun of Gath. Sons of Korah. Psalm. 2 How desirable are Thy dwellings, O Lord of hosts! 3 My soul is weary, longing for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh delight in the living God. 4 And the bird finds for himself a dwelling, and the swallow a nest for himself, where to lay his young, at thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God! 5 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they shall praise thee without ceasing. 6 Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee, and whose paths are directed to Thee in his heart. 7 Passing through the valley of weeping, they open springs in it, and the rain covers it with blessing; 8 come from strength to power, appear before God in Zion. 9 O Lord God Almighty! Hear my prayer, hearken, O God of Jacob! 10 O God, our defender! Bow down and look upon the face of Thy anointed. 11 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be at the threshold in the house of God than live in the tents of wickedness. 12 For the Lord God is the sun and the shield, the Lord giveth grace and glory; He does not deprive those who walk in chastity of blessings. 13 O Lord of hosts! Blessed is the man who trusts in You!

1 Song of ascent. I cried unto the Lord in my affliction, and he heard me. 2 Lord! deliver my soul from lying lips, from the tongue of evil. 3 What shall the wicked tongue give thee, and what shall the wicked tongue add unto thee? 4 The sophisticated arrows of the strong, with burning gorse coals. 5 Woe is me, that I dwell with Mosoch, dwell at the tents of Kidar. 6 Long has my soul dwelt with them that hate the world. 7 I am peaceful: but as soon as I speak, they are for war.

1 Song of ascent. I lift up my eyes to the mountains, whence my help will come. 2 My help is from the Lord, who created heaven and earth. 3 He will not let thy foot be shaken, nor shall he that keepeth thee slumber; 4 He that keepeth Israel sleepeth not, nor sleepeth. 5 The Lord is thy guardian; The Lord is thy shadow from thy right hand. 6 By day the sun shall not smite thee, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will keep you from all evil; the Lord will preserve your soul. 8 The Lord will watch over your going out and your going in from now on and forever.

1 Song of ascent. David. I rejoiced when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord. 2 Behold, our feet stand in thy gate, O Jerusalem, 3 Jerusalem, built as a city united into one, 4 whither the tribes ascend, the tribes of the Lord, according to the law of Israel, to glorify the name of the Lord. 5 There stand the thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. 6 Ask for peace to Jerusalem: that those who love you may prosper. 7 May there be peace within thy walls, prosperity in thy palaces! 8 For the sake of my brethren and my neighbors I say, Peace be unto thee. 9 For the house of the Lord our God, I wish you well.

1 Song of ascent. To Thee I lift up my eyes, O Thou who dwellest in heaven! 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants are turned to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a servant are to the hand of her mistress, so are our eyes to the Lord our God, until he has mercy on us. 3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, for we are filled enough with contempt; 4 Our soul is sufficiently filled with reproach from the haughty, and humiliation from the proud.

1 Song of ascent. David. He that trusteth in the Lord, like Mount Zion, shall not be moved: he shall abide for ever. 2 The mountains are round about Jerusalem, and the Lord is round about his people from now on and forever. 3 For the Lord will not leave the rod of the wicked over the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to iniquity. 4 Do good, O Lord, to the good and upright in your hearts; 5 And let the Lord leave them that turn astray into their crooked ways to walk with them that practice iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

1 Song of ascent. From the depths I cry out to Thee, O Lord. 2 Lord! Hear my voice. Let Thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. 3 If thou, O Lord, take heed iniquity, O Lord! Who will stand? 4 But with Thee is forgiveness, that they may reverence Thee. 5 I trust in the Lord, my soul hopes; I trust in His word. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than the watchmen for the morning, more than the watchmen for the morning. 7 Let Israel trust in the Lord, for with the Lord is mercy, and with him is much deliverance, 8 and he will deliver Israel from all their iniquities.