1 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.

Psalm 120

Song of ascent.

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains, whence my help comes.

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.

Psalm 121

Song of ascent. David.

1 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 merged into one,

4 whither the tribes go up, 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.