PSALM 121



I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains; From whence shall my help come?
My help cometh from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.

 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, He that keepeth Israel Doth neither slumber nor sleep.

 The Lord is thy keeper; The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.

 The Lord shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul.
The Lord shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, From this time forth and forever.

PSALM 23

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; 
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
 He restoreth my soul; 
He guideth me in straight paths for His name's sake.
 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, 
I will fear no evil,
 For thou art with me;
 Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies,
 Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
 And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 

PSALM 90

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Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 
 Before the mountains were brought forth, 
 Or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, 
Even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

 Thou turnest man to contrition; 
And sayest: `Return, ye children of men.' 
For a thousand years in Thy sight 
Are but as yesterday when it is past, 
 And as a watch in the night.

 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as asleep; 
In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; 
In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

 We bring our years to an end as a tale that is told. 
 The day of our years are the three-score years and ten, 
Or even by reason of strength four-score years; 
Yet is their pride but travail and vanity; 
For it is speedily gone, and we fly away.

 So teach us to number our days, 
That we may get us a heart of wisdom. 
Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants. 
 And Thy glory upon their children.

 And let the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us;
 Establish Thou also upon us the work of our hands 
 Yea, the work of our hands establish Thou it.