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.

If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say  *

if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us;

They had swallowed us up quick *

when thy were so wrathfully displeased at us.

Yea, the waters had drowned us *

and the stream had gone over our soul.

The deep waters of the proud *

had gone even over our soul.

But praised be the Lord *

who hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler *

the snare is broken, and we are delivered .

Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord *

who hath made heaven and earth.

They that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Sion  *

which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever.

The hills stand about Jerusalem *

even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.

For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous *

lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.

Do well, O Lord *

unto those that are good and true of heart.

As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness *

the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil-doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.