We have a strong city;
    he sets up walls and bulwarks as a safeguard.^(A)
2 Open the gates,
    so that the righteous nation that maintains faithfulness
    may enter in.^(B)
3 Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace,
    in peace because they trust in you.
⁴ Trust in the Lord forever,
    for in the Lord God^[a]
    you have an everlasting rock.^(C)

⁷ The way of the righteous is level;
    straight is the path of the righteous that you clear.^(A)
8 In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we have placed hope;
your name and your renown
    are the soul’s desire.^(B)

⁴ Some wandered in desert wastes,
    finding no way to an inhabited town;^(D)
5 hungry and thirsty,
    their soul fainted within them.
⁶ Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress;^(E)
7 he led them by a straight way,
    until they reached an inhabited town.^(F)
8 Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love,
    for his wonderful works to humankind.^(G)

³ He will not let your foot be moved;
    he who keeps you will not slumber.^(B)
4 He who keeps Israel
    will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The Lord is your keeper;
    the Lord is your shade at your right hand.^(C)
6 The sun shall not strike you by day
    nor the moon by night.^(D)

⁷ The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.^(E)
8 The Lord will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time on and forevermore.^(F)