Psalm 120
Ψαλμοί
Psalm 121 in the Hebrew numbering, which most Western Bibles follow.
1 ᾨδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν. ΗΡΑ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου εἰς τὰ ὄρη, ὅθεν ἥξει ἡ βοήθειά μου.
(121) A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come.
2 ἡ βοήθειά μου παρὰ Κυρίου τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.
My help [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
3 μὴ δῴης εἰς σάλον τὸν πόδα σου, μηδὲ νυστάξῃ ὁ φυλάσσων σε.
Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber.
4 ἰδοὺ οὐ νυστάξει οὐδὲ ὑπνώσει ὁ φυλάσσων τὸν Ἰσραήλ.
Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.
5 Κύριος φυλάξει σε, Κύριος σκέπη σοι ἐπὶ χεῖρα δεξιάν σου·
The Lord shall keep you: the Lord is your shelter upon your right hand.
6 ἡμέρας ὁ ἥλιος οὐ συγκαύσει σε, οὐδὲ ἡ σελήνη τὴν νύκτα.
The sun shall not burn you by day, neither the moon by night.
7 Κύριος φυλάξει σε ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοῦ, φυλάξει τὴν ψυχήν σου ὁ Κύριος.
May the Lord preserve you from all evil: the Lord shall keep your soul.
8 Κύριος φυλάξει τὴν εἴσοδόν σου καὶ τὴν ἔξοδόν σου ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.
The Lord shall keep your coming in, and your going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
Greek: the Septuagint as the Orthodox Media Network published it (Mount Athos); 2 Maccabees and the Prayer of Manasseh from Brenton's edition (1851). English: Brenton's translation (1851), its spelling updated by Michael Paul Johnson; public domain. About these texts.