Psalms 121

1 A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes, unto the mountains, From whence cometh my help!

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

2 My help, is from Yahweh, who made heavens 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 May he not suffer thy foot, to slip, May thy keeper, not slumber!

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

4 Lo! neither will slumber nor sleep, The keeper of Israel.

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

5 Yahweh, is thy keeper, Yahweh, is thy shade, on thy right hand:

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

6 By day, the sun, shall not smite, 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 Yahweh, will keep thee from all harm, He will keep thy life.

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

8 Yahweh, will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth, even unto times age-abiding.

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.