Psalmorum 121

1 Canticum graduum. Levavi oculos meos in montes, unde veniet auxilium mihi.

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

2 Auxilium meum a Domino, qui fecit caelum et terram.

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

3 Non det in commotionem pedem tuum: neque dormitet qui custodit te.

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

4 Ecce non dormitabit neque dormiet, qui custodit Israel.

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

5 Dominus custodit te, Dominus protectio tua, super manum dexteram tuam.

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

6 Per diem sol non uret te: neque luna per noctem.

[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 Dominus custodit te ab omni malo: custodiat animam tuam Dominus.

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

8 Dominus custodiat introitum tuum, et exitum tuum: ex hoc nunc, et usque in saeculum.

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.