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Songs 121/Yahweh our protector

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Literal Version

121:0 Yahweh our protector

A song for climbing towards Yerushalem.

121 I look up towards the hills.

Where will my help come from?

2 My help comes from Yahweh

who made heaven and earth.

3 May he not allow your feet to slip.

May your protector stay alert.

4 Listen, Israel’s protector doesn’t doze or sleep.

5 Yahweh is your bodyguard.

≈Yahweh is beside you to shelter you.

6 Now the sun won’t harm you during the day,

≈or the moon at night-time.

7 Yahweh will protect you from all harm.

≈He will protect your life.

8 Yahweh will protect your comings and your goings

both now and then forever.

121 A _song of _the_ascents[fn] I _lift _up eyes_my to the_mountains from_where will _it _come help_my.
2 Help_my from_with YHWH [who]_made (of)_heaven and_earth.
3 Not may _he _permit to _the your not wwww mmm.
4 There not he _will _slumber and_not he _will _sleep the _protector of _Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel).
5 YHWH keeper_your YHWH shade_your at the _hand right_your.
6 By _day the_sun not strike_you and_moon in/on/at/with_night.
7 YHWH protect_you from_all harm he _will _protect DOM life_your.
8 YHWH he _will _protect going _out_your and_coming _in_your from_now and_unto perpetuity.

121:1 Note: KJB: Ps.121.1

OET by section PSA 121:1

Songs 121/Yahweh our protector

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