Chronological

¹ I lift up my eyes to the mountains.
Where does my help come from?
² My help comes from the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.
³ He will not let your foot stumble.
He who watches over you will not slumber.
⁴ Yes, he who watches over Israel will not slumber.
He will not sleep.
⁵ The Lord watches over you.
The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
⁶ The sun will not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
⁷ The Lord will watch to keep you from all harm.^[a]
He will watch over your life.^[b]
8 The Lord will watch over your going and your coming
    from now to eternity.

¹ To you I lift up my eyes,
to you who are seated in heaven.
² Indeed, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he shows us his grace.
³ Show grace to us, O Lord.
Show grace to us,
for we have had our fill of contempt.
⁴ Our souls have had their fill of the scorn of the smug
and of the contempt of the arrogant.

¹ Unless it was the Lord who was for us—
let Israel say—
² unless it was the Lord who was for us
when people^[a] rose against us,
³ they would have swallowed us alive
when their anger burned against us.
⁴ Then the waters would have submerged us.
The torrent would have swept our lives away.
⁵ Then the wild waters would have swept us away.
⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
    who has not let us be prey for their teeth.
⁷ We have escaped with our lives
    like a bird out of the fowlers’ snare.
The snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord,
    the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹ Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion.
It cannot be shaken. It will stand forever.
² As Jerusalem is surrounded by mountains,
so the Lord surrounds his people from now to eternity.
³ No, the scepter of wickedness will not rest
    on the land assigned to the righteous,
so that the righteous do not reach out their hands toward evil.
⁴ Do good, O Lord, for the good
and for those who are upright in their hearts.
⁵ But those who turn to their crooked ways—
the Lord will send them away with the evildoers.
Peace be on Israel.

¹ How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,
everyone who is walking in his ways.
² Yes, you will eat the food you worked for.
How blessed you are! It will go well for you!
³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house.
Your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
⁴ Look! This is how blessed the man is who fears the Lord!

⁵ May the Lord bless you from Zion,
so that you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
all the days of your life,
⁶ and you see your children’s children.
Peace be on Israel.

¹ Greatly they have afflicted me from my youth—
let Israel say—
² greatly they have afflicted me from my youth,
yet they have not been able to defeat me.
³ On my back plowmen have plowed.
They made their furrows long.

⁴ The Lord is righteous.
He has cut the ropes of the wicked to pieces.
⁵ Let all who hate Zion be ashamed and turned back.
⁶ Let them be like grass on the roof,
    which withers even before it is pulled up.
⁷ The reaper cannot fill his hand with it.
The one who binds sheaves cannot fill his arms.
⁸ May those who pass by never say,
“The blessing of the Lord be with you.
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

¹ Out of the depths I have called to you, O Lord.
² Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive to the sound of my cry for mercy.
³ If you, Lord,^[a] kept a record of guilt,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴ But with you there is pardon,
so you are feared.
⁵ I wait for the Lord. My soul waits,
and in his word I have put my hope.
⁶ My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
⁷ Israel, wait confidently for the Lord,
because with the Lord there is mercy.
With him there is abundant redemption.
⁸ So he himself will redeem Israel from all its guilt.