Psalms 121

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

I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

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 the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

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

May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

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

Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

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

The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection 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 burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

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

The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord 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.

May the Lord keep thy going in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.