Chronological

121 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ If I raise my eyes to the hills,
from where will my help come?
² My help comes from Adonai,
the maker of heaven and earth.
³ He will not let your foot slip —
your guardian is not asleep.
⁴ No, the guardian of Isra’el
never slumbers or sleeps.

⁵ Adonai is your guardian; at your right hand
Adonai provides you with shade —
⁶ the sun can’t strike you during the day
or even the moon at night.

⁷ Adonai will guard you against all harm;
he will guard your life.
⁸ Adonai will guard your coming and going
from now on and forever.

123 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ I raise my eyes to you,
whose throne is in heaven.
² As a servant looks to the hand of his master,
or a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes turn to Adonai our God,
until he has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, Adonai, have mercy;
for we have had our fill of contempt,
⁴ more than our fill of scorn from the complacent
and contempt from the arrogant.

124 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents. By David:

⁽¹⁾ If Adonai hadn’t been for us —
let Isra’el repeat it —
² If Adonai hadn’t been for us
when people rose to attack us,
³ then, when their anger blazed against us,
they would have swallowed us alive!
⁴ Then the water would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over us.
⁵ Yes, the raging water
would have swept right over us.

⁶ Blessed be Adonai, who did not leave us
to be a prey for their teeth!
⁷ We escaped like a bird from the hunter’s trap;
the trap is broken, and we have escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of Adonai,
the maker of heaven and earth.

125 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ Those who trust in Adonai
are like Mount Tziyon,
which cannot be moved
but remains forever.

² Yerushalayim!
Mountains all around it!
Thus Adonai is around his people
henceforth and forever.

³ For the scepter of wickedness
will not rule the inheritance of the righteous,
so that the righteous will not themselves
turn their hands to evil.
⁴ Do good, Adonai, to the good,
to those upright in their hearts.
⁵ But as for those who turn aside
to their own crooked ways,
may Adonai turn them away,
along with those who do evil.

Shalom on Isra’el!

128 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ How happy is everyone who fears Adonai,
who lives by his ways.

² You will eat what your hands have produced;
you will be happy and prosperous.
³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
in the inner parts of your house.
Your children around the table will be
like shoots from an olive tree.

⁴ This is the kind of blessing that will fall
on him who fears Adonai.

⁵ May Adonai bless you from Tziyon!
May you see Yerushalayim prosper
all the days of your life,
⁶ and may you live to see your children’s children!

Shalom on Isra’el.

129 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ Since I was young they have often attacked me —
let Isra’el repeat it —
² since I was young they have often attacked me,
but they haven’t overcome me.

³ The plowmen plowed on my back;
wounding me with long furrows.
⁴ But Adonai is righteous;
he cuts me free from the yoke of the wicked.

⁵ Let all who hate Tziyon
be thrown back in confusion.
⁶ Let them be like grass on the roof,
which dries out before it grows up
⁷ and never fills the reaper’s hands
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves,
⁸ so that no passer-by says,
“Adonai’s blessing on you!
We bless you in the name of Adonai!”

130 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents. By David:

⁽¹⁾ Adonai, I call to you from the depths;
² hear my cry, Adonai!
Let your ears pay attention
to the sound of my pleading.

³ Yah, if you kept a record of sins,
who, Adonai, could stand?
⁴ But with you there is forgiveness,
so that you will be feared.

⁵ I wait longingly for Adonai;
I put my hope in his word.
⁶ Everything in me waits for Adonai
more than guards on watch wait for morning,
more than guards on watch wait for morning.

⁷ Isra’el, put your hope in Adonai!
For grace is found with Adonai,
and with him is unlimited redemption.
⁸ He will redeem Isra’el
from all their wrongdoings.