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.

Psalm 122

Song of ascent.

1 Unto thee do 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 our eyes are 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.

Psalm 123

Song of ascent. David.

1 If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel say,

2 If the Lord had not been with us, when men rose up against us,

3 Alive they would have swallowed us up, when their wrath was kindled against us.

4 The waters would have drowned us, the stream would have passed over our souls;

5 Stormy waters would pass over our souls.

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