Psalms 121

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

A Song of Degrees. I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall 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 [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

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

Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber.

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

Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.

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

The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your 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 burn you by day, neither the moon by night.

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

May the Lord preserve you from all evil: the Lord shall keep your 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.

The Lord shall keep your coming in, and your going out, from henceforth and even for ever.