Psalms 121

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

[When we travel toward Jerusalem], I look up toward the hills [and I ask myself], “Who will help me?”

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

[And my answer is] that Yahweh is the one who helps me; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

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

He will not allow us to fall/stumble; God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.

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

The one who protects us Israeli people never gets sleepy, nor does he sleep [LIT].

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

Yahweh watches over us; he is like the shade [MET] [that protects us from the sun].

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

[He will not allow] the sun to harm us during the day, and [he will not allow] the moon to harm us during the night.

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

Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner; he will keep us safe.

8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

He will protect us from the time that we leave [our houses in the morning] until we return [in the evening]; he will protect us now, and he will protect us forever.