Psalms 121; Lamentations 3:19–26

A Song of Ascents.

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

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

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

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

⁵The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.

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

⁷The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

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

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

²⁰My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

²¹This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

²²It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.

²³They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

²⁴“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

²⁶It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.