Psalms 121

1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from which 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 cometh from the LORD, who made heaven 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 He will not allow thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

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

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

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

5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

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

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, 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 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

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

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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.