1  ^jI lift up my eyes to the hills.

From where does my help come?

2  ^kMy ^lhelp comes from the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

3  He will not let your foot ^mbe moved;

he who keeps you will not slumber.

4  Behold, he who keeps Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

5  The Lord is your ⁿkeeper;

the Lord is your ^oshade ^pon your right hand.

6  The ^qsun shall not strike you by day,

nor the moon by night.

7  The Lord will keep you from all evil;

he will ^rkeep your life.

8  ^sThe Lord will keep

your going out and your coming in

from this time forth and forevermore.

1  I was glad when they said to me,

^t“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

2  Our feet have been standing

within your gates, O Jerusalem!

3  ^uJerusalem—built as a city

that is ^vbound firmly together,

4  to which the tribes go up,

the tribes of the Lord,

^was was decreed for¹ Israel,

to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

5  There thrones for judgment were set,

the thrones of the house of David.

6  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

“May they be secure who love you!

7  Peace be within your walls

and security within your towers!”

8  For my brothers and companions’ sake

I will say, “Peace be within you!”

9  For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

I will seek your good.

1  To you ^xI lift up my eyes,

O you who are ^yenthroned in the heavens!

2  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.

3  ^zHave mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,

for we have had more than enough of contempt.

4  Our soul has had more than enough

of the scorn of ^athose who are at ease,

of the contempt of the proud.

^x“Learn not the way of the nations,

nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens

because the nations are dismayed at them,

3  for the customs of the peoples are vanity.¹

A tree from the forest is cut down

and worked with an axe by the hands of a ^ycraftsman.

4  They decorate it with silver and gold;

they fasten it with hammer and nails

so that it cannot move.

5  Their idols² are like scarecrows in a cucumber field,

and ^zthey cannot speak;

^athey have to be carried,

for they cannot walk.

Do not be afraid of them,

for ^bthey cannot do evil,

neither is it in them to do good.”

6  There is none like you, O Lord;

you are great, and your name is great in might.

7  ^cWho would not fear you, O King of the nations?

For this is your due;

for among all the wise ones of the nations

and in all their kingdoms

there is none like you.

8  They are both stupid and foolish;

the instruction of idols is but wood!

9  Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish,

and gold from Uphaz.

They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith;

their clothing is violet and purple;

they are all the work of skilled men.

10  But the Lord is the true God;

he is the living God and the everlasting King.

At his wrath the earth ^dquakes,

and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

12  ^eIt is he who made the earth by his power,

who established the world ^fby his wisdom,

and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

13  When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,

and ^ghe makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.

He makes lightning for the rain,

and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

14  Every man is stupid and without knowledge;

every goldsmith is ^hput to shame by his idols,

for his images are false,

and ⁱthere is no breath in them.

15  They are worthless, a work of delusion;

at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

16  Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob,

for he is the one who formed all things,

and Israel is the ^jtribe of his inheritance;

^kthe Lord of hosts is his name.