Day 188 of 364

^120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me. ^120:2Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. ^120:3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue? ^120:4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. ^120:5Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! ^120:6My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace. ^120:7I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. ^121:1A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? ^121:2My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. ^121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. ^121:4Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. ^121:5The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand. ^121:6The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. ^121:7The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. ^121:8The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more. ^122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!” ^122:2Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem! ^122:3Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together, ^122:4where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the LORD’s name. ^122:5For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house. ^122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. ^122:7Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. ^122:8For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.” ^122:9For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. ^123:1A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens. ^123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us. ^123:3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. ^123:4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. ^124:1A Song of Ascents. By David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say, ^124:2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us, ^124:3then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us, ^124:4then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul. ^124:5Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul. ^124:6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. ^124:7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. ^124:8Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.