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Psalmus 120 (121)

Language: Latin

1 [Canticum graduum.] Levavi oculos meos in montes, unde veniet auxilium mihi.
2 Auxilium meum a Domino, qui fecit cælum et terram.
3 Non det in commotionem pedem tuum, neque dormitet qui custodit te.
4 Ecce non dormitabit neque dormiet qui custodit Israël.
5 Dominus custodit te; Dominus protectio tua super manum dexteram tuam.
6 Per diem sol non uret te, neque luna per noctem.
7 Dominus custodit te ab omni malo; custodiat animam tuam Dominus.
8 Dominus custodiat introitum tuum et exitum tuum, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.


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Set in French, adapted by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist DUT ENG FRE GER Set in German, a translation of Martin Luther (1483-1546) DUT ENG FRE GER Set in English, a translation of Bible or other Sacred Texts DUT ENG FRE GER Set in German, a translation of Bible or other Sacred Texts DUT ENG FRE GER [text unavailable] Set in German, a translation of Martin Luther (1483-1546) DUT ENG FRE GER Set in German, a translation of Wilhelm Telschow (1809-1872) DUT ENG FRE GER [text unavailable]
Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
    * DUT Dutch (Wim Reedijk)

Date added to the website: 0000-00-00.

Psalm 120 (121)

Language: English

1 I [will]1 lift up mine eyes [unto]2 the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh [even]3 from the LORD, [which]4 made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: [and]3 he that keepeth thee [will]1 not [slumber]5.
4 [Behold,]6 he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD [himself]3 is thy keeper: [the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.]7
7 The LORD shall preserve thee from [all]6 evil: [he shall]8 preserve thy soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time [forth, and even for evermore]9.


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1 Steele: "shall"
2 Steele: "to"
3 added by Stanford
4 Stanford: "who hath"; Steele: "who"
5 Stanford, Steele: "sleep"
6 omitted by Steele
7 Stanford: "The Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand; / So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night."
8 Stanford: "Yea, it is even He that shall"
9 "forth for evermore."

Input by Ivo Zandhuis

Authorship Based on

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2004-12-13.