Psalms 121

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

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come?

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

My help is from Jehovah, who made heaven and earth.

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

He will not allow thy foot to be moved. He who keeps thee will not slumber.

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

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

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

Jehovah is thy keeper. Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.

6 [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.

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

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

Jehovah will keep thee from all evil. He will keep thy soul.

8 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.

Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and for evermore.