Psalms 121

1 A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?

[When we travel toward Jerusalem], I look up toward the hills [and I ask myself], “Who will help me?”

2 My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

[And my answer is] that Yahweh is the one who helps me; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

He will not allow us to fall/stumble; God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.

4 Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.

The one who protects us Israeli people never gets sleepy, nor does he sleep [LIT].

5 The LORD is thy keeper; the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

Yahweh watches over us; he is like the shade [MET] [that protects us from the sun].

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

[He will not allow] the sun to harm us during the day, and [he will not allow] the moon to harm us during the night.

7 The LORD shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul.

Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner; he will keep us safe.

8 The LORD shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for ever.

He will protect us from the time that we leave [our houses in the morning] until we return [in the evening]; he will protect us now, and he will protect us forever.