When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord  *

and he heard me.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips *

and from a deceitful tongue.

What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue *

even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech *

and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar.

My soul hath long dwelt among them *

that are enemies unto peace.

I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof *

they make them ready to battle.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills  *

from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh even from the Lord *

who hath made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved *

and he that keepeth thee will not sleep.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel *

shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord himself is thy keeper *

the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand;

So that the sun shall not burn thee by day *

neither the moon by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil *

yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in *

from this time forth for evermore.

I was glad when they said unto me  *

We will go into the house of the Lord.

Our feet shall stand in thy gates *

O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city *

that is at unity in itself.

For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord *

to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord.

For there is the seat of judgement *

even the seat of the house of David.

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem *

they shall prosper that love thee.

Peace be within thy walls *

and plenteousness within thy palaces.

For my brethren and companions’ sakes *

I will wish thee prosperity.

Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God *

I will seek to do thee good.

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes  *

O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress *

even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us *

for we are utterly despised.

Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy *

and with the despitefulness of the proud.