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¹A song of ascents. [1] In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.

²“LORD, rescue me from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.”

³What will he give you, and what will he do to you, you deceitful tongue?

⁴A warrior’s sharp arrows with burning charcoal!

⁵What misery that I have stayed in Meshech, that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

⁶I have dwelt too long with those who hate peace.

⁷I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

¹A song of ascents. [1] I lift my eyes toward the mountains. Where will my help come from?

²My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

³He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.

⁴Indeed, the Protector of Israel does not slumber or sleep.

⁵The LORD protects you; the LORD is a shelter right by your side.

⁶The sun will not strike you by day or the moon by night.

⁷The LORD will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.

⁸The LORD will protect your coming and going both now and forever.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. [1] I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

²Our feet were standing within your gates, Jerusalem  —

³Jerusalem, built as a city should be, solidly united,

⁴where the tribes, the LORD’s tribes, go up to give thanks to the name of the LORD. (This is an ordinance for Israel. )

⁵There, thrones for judgment are placed, thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the well-being of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure;

⁷may there be peace within your walls, security within your fortresses.”

⁸Because of my brothers and friends, I will say, “May peace be in you.”

⁹Because of the house of the LORD our God, I will pursue your prosperity.

¹A song of ascents. [1] I lift my eyes to you, the one enthroned in heaven.

²Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand, like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until he shows us favor.

³Show us favor, LORD, show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt.

⁴We’ve had more than enough scorn from the arrogant and contempt from the proud.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. [1] If the LORD had not been on our side — let Israel say —

²If the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us,

³then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

⁴Then the water would have engulfed us; the torrent would have swept over us;

⁵the raging water would have swept over us.

⁶Blessed be the LORD, who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.

⁷We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net; the net is torn, and we have escaped.

⁸Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

¹A song of ascents. [1] Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.

²The mountains surround Jerusalem and the LORD surrounds his people, both now and forever.

³The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.

⁴Do what is good, LORD, to the good, to those whose hearts are upright.

⁵But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways, the LORD will banish them with the evildoers. Peace be with Israel.

¹A song of ascents. [1] When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.

²Our mouths were filled with laughter then, and our tongues with shouts of joy. Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

³The LORD had done great things for us; we were joyful.

⁴Restore our fortunes, LORD, like watercourses in the Negev.

⁵Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

⁶Though one goes along weeping, carrying the bag of seed, he will surely come back with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves.

¹A song of ascents. Of Solomon. [1] Unless the LORD builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the LORD watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.

²In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food —  yes, he gives sleep to the one he loves.

³Sons are indeed a heritage from the LORD, offspring, a reward.

⁴Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons born in one’s youth.

⁵Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. They will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

¹A song of ascents. [1] How happy is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

²You will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy, and it will go well for you.

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children, like young olive trees around your table.

⁴In this very way the man who fears the LORD will be blessed.

⁵May the LORD bless you from Zion, so that you will see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life

⁶and will see your children’s children! Peace be with Israel.

¹A song of ascents. [1] Since my youth they have often attacked me — let Israel say —

²Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.

³Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

⁴The LORD is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.

⁵Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.

⁶Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

⁷and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

⁸Then none who pass by will say, “May the LORD’s blessing be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD.”

¹A song of ascents. [1] Out of the depths I call to you, LORD!

²Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears be attentive to my cry for help.

³LORD, if you kept an account of iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

⁴But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be revered.

⁵I wait for the LORD; I wait and put my hope in his word.

⁶I wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning — more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷Israel, put your hope in the LORD. For there is faithful love with the LORD, and with him is redemption in abundance.

⁸And he will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.

¹A song of ascents. Of David. [1] LORD, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I do not get involved with things too great or too wondrous for me.

²Instead, I have calmed and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like a weaned child.

³Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forever.

¹A song of ascents. [1] LORD, remember David and all the hardships he endured,

²and how he swore an oath to the LORD, making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:

³“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

⁴I will not allow my eyes to sleep or my eyelids to slumber

⁵until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

⁶We heard of the ark in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.

⁷Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool.

⁸Rise up, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your powerful ark.

⁹May your priests be clothed with righteousness, and may your faithful people shout for joy.

¹⁰For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one.

¹¹The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise he will not abandon: “I will set one of your offspring on your throne.

¹²If your sons keep my covenant and my decrees that I will teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

¹³For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his home:

¹⁴“This is my resting place forever; I will make my home here because I have desired it.

¹⁵I will abundantly bless its food; I will satisfy its needy with bread.

¹⁶I will clothe its priests with salvation, and its faithful people will shout for joy.

¹⁷There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown he wears will be glorious.”

¹A song of ascents. Of David. [1] How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

²It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard onto his robes.

³It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has appointed the blessing — life forevermore.