Psalm 121(120) Levai oculos

(A song of ascents.)

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills, to find deliverance;

2 from the Lord deliverance comes to me, the Lord who made heaven and earth.

3 Never will he who guards thee allow thy foot to stumble; never fall asleep at his post!

4 Such a guardian has Israel, one who is never weary, never sleeps;

5 it is the Lord that guards thee, the Lord that stands at thy right hand to give thee shelter.

6 The sun’s rays by day, the moon’s by night, shall have no power to hurt thee.

7 The Lord will guard thee from all evil; the Lord will protect thee in danger;

8 the Lord will protect thy journeying and thy home-coming, henceforth and for ever. (KNOX)