Unless Yahweh builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless Yahweh watches the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early,
That you sit out late,
O you who eat the bread of painful labors;
For in this manner, He gives sleep to His beloved.

Behold, children are an inheritance of Yahweh,
The fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with enemies in the gate.

Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy.
He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves with him.

Our help is in the name of Yahweh,
Who made heaven and earth.

To You I lift up my eyes,
The One enthroned in the heavens!
Behold, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
As the eyes of a servant-girl to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to Yahweh our God,
Until He is gracious to us.

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly saturated with contempt.
Our soul is greatly saturated
With the mockery of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud.

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of Yahweh.”
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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
May peace be within your walls,
And tranquility within your palaces.”
For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,
I will seek your good.

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
My help comes from Yahweh,
Who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to stumble;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will not slumber and will not sleep.

Yahweh is your keeper;
Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
Yahweh will keep you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in
From now until forever.

In my distress I called to Yahweh,
And He answered me.
O Yahweh, deliver my soul from a lying lip,
From a deceitful tongue.
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Too long has my soul had its dwelling
With those who hate peace.
I am for peace, but when I speak,
They are for war.

May Your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Yahweh,
Your salvation according to Your word;
So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,
For I trust in Your word.
And do not take away the word of truth utterly from my mouth,
For I wait for Your judgments.
So I will keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.
And I will walk in a wide place,
For I seek Your precepts.
I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings
And I shall not be ashamed.
I shall delight in Your commandments,
Which I love.
And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I love;
And I will muse on Your statutes.

Oh let those who fear Yahweh say,
“His lovingkindness endures forever.”
From my distress I called upon Yah;
Yah answered me and set me in a large place.
Yahweh is for me; I will not fear;
What can man do to me?
Yahweh is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I will look in triumph on those who hate me.
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh
Than to trust in man.
It is better to take refuge in Yahweh
Than to trust in nobles.

Praise Yahweh, all nations;
Laud Him, all peoples!
For His lovingkindness prevails over us,
And the truth of Yahweh is everlasting.
Praise Yah!