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 Israhel

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.