PSALMS 121

1 When we travel toward Jerusalem, I look up toward the hills and I ask myself, “Who will help me?" 2 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 us to fall/stumble; God, who protects us, will not fall asleep. 4 The one who protects us Israeli people never gets sleepy, nor does he sleep [LIT]. 5 Yahweh watches over us; he is like the shade [MET] that protects us from the sun. 6 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 protect us from being harmed in any manner; he will keep us safe. 8 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.