A Song of Ascents.

    In my distress I called to the LORD,
        and he answered me.
    Deliver me, O LORD,
        from lying lips,
        from a deceitful tongue.
    
    
    What shall be given to you,
        and what more shall be done to you,
        you deceitful tongue?
    A warrior’s sharp arrows,
        with glowing coals of the broom tree!
    
    
    Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
        that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
    Too long have I had my dwelling
        among those who hate peace.
    I am for peace,
        but when I speak, they are for war!
    
    
    A Song of Ascents.

    I lift up my eyes to the hills.
        From where does my help come?
    My help comes from the LORD,
        who made heaven and earth.
    
    
    He will not let your foot be moved;
        he who keeps you will not slumber.
    Behold, he who keeps Israel
        will neither slumber nor sleep.
    
    
    The LORD is your keeper;
        the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
    The sun shall not strike you by day,
        nor the moon by night.
    
    
    The LORD will keep you from all evil;
        he will keep your life.
    The LORD will keep
        your going out and your coming in
        from this time forth and forevermore.
    
    
    A Song of Ascents. Of David.

    I was glad when they said to me,
        “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”
    Our feet have been standing
        within your gates, O Jerusalem!
    
    
    Jerusalem—built as a city
        that is bound firmly together,
    to which the tribes go up,
        the tribes of the LORD,
    as was decreed for Israel,
        to give thanks to the name of the LORD.
    There thrones for judgment were set,
        the thrones of the house of David.
    
    
    Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
        “May they be secure who love you!
    Peace be within your walls
        and security within your towers!”
    For my brothers and companions’ sake
        I will say, “Peace be within you!”
    For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,
        I will seek your good.
    
    
    A Song of Ascents.

    To you I lift up my eyes,
        O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
    Behold, as the eyes of servants
        look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a maidservant
        to the hand of her mistress,
    so our eyes look to the LORD our God,
        till he has mercy upon us.
    
    
    Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us,
        for we have had more than enough of contempt.
    Our soul has had more than enough
        of the scorn of those who are at ease,
        of the contempt of the proud. (ESV)