121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains:
From whence shall my help come?
² My help cometh from Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.

123 Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes,
O thou that sittest in the heavens.
² Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master,
As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress;
So our eyes look unto Jehovah our God,
Until he have mercy upon us.
³ Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us;
For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled
With the scoffing of those that are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud.

124 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side,
Let Israel now say,
² If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side,
When men rose up against us;
³ Then they had swallowed us up alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us:
⁴ Then the waters had overwhelmed us,
The stream had gone over our soul;
⁵ Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
⁶ Blessed be Jehovah,
Who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
⁷ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of Jehovah,
Who made heaven and earth.

125 They that trust in Jehovah
Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.
² As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,
So Jehovah is round about his people
From this time forth and for evermore.
³ For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous;
That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.
⁴ Do good, O Jehovah, unto those that are good,
And to them that are upright in their hearts.
⁵ But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways,
Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel.

128 Blessed is every one that feareth Jehovah,
That walketh in his ways.
² For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands:
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
³ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine,
In the innermost parts of thy house;
Thy children like olive plants,
Round about thy table.
⁴ Behold, thus shall the man be blessed
That feareth Jehovah.
⁵ Jehovah bless thee out of Zion:
And see thou the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
⁶ Yea, see thou thy children’s children.
^[a]Peace be upon Israel.

^[b]129 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
^2 [c]Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
³ The plowers plowed upon my back;
They made long their furrows.
⁴ Jehovah is righteous:
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
⁵ Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withereth before it ^[d]groweth up;
⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,
Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:
⁸ Neither do they that go by say,
The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Jehovah.

130 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
² Lord, hear my voice:
Let thine ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.
³ If thou, ^[e]Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee,
That thou mayest be feared.
⁵ I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait,
And in his word do I hope.
⁶ My soul waiteth for the Lord
More than watchmen wait for the morning;
Yea, more than watchmen for the morning.
⁷ O Israel, hope in Jehovah;
For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness,
And with him is plenteous redemption.
⁸ And he will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.