Psalms 121

1 song to/for step to lift: raise eye my to(wards) [the] mountain: mount from where? to come (in): come helper my

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

2 helper my from from with LORD to make heaven and land: country/planet

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

3 not to give: allow to/for yoke foot your not to slumber to keep: guard you

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

4 behold not to slumber and not to sleep to keep: guard Israel

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

5 LORD to keep: guard you LORD shadow your upon hand right your

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

6 by day [the] sun not to smite you and moon in/on/with 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 LORD to keep: guard you from all bad: evil to keep: guard [obj] soul: life your

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

8 LORD to keep: guard to come out: come you and to come (in): come you from now and till forever: enduring

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.