¹⁶¹ Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

¹⁶² I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

¹⁶⁵ Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

¹⁶⁶ I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶⁸ I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV

¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

¹⁷¹ Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

¹⁷² Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

¹⁷³ Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.

¹ In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

² Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

³ What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

⁵ Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶ My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

⁷ I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

¹ I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

² My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

³ He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

⁶ The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

⁷ Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

⁸ Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.

¹ I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

² Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

³ Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

⁴ where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

⁵ For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

⁷ Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

⁸ For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you."

⁹ For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.

¹ To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

² Behold, 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 Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

¹ If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

² if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

³ then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

⁴ then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

⁵ then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

⁶ Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. A Song of Ascents.