Psalms 125

1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.

A song of ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, that cannot be moved, but abides forever.

2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.

Round Jerusalem are the mountains, and the Lord is round his people from now and for evermore.

3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.

For he will not suffer the sceptre of wrong to rest on the land allotted to the righteous; else the righteous might put forth their own hand to evil.

4 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.

Do good, O Lord, to the good, and to the true-hearted.

5 But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

But those who swerve into crooked ways will the Lord lead away with the workers of evil. Peace be upon Israel.