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March 6, 2005
Believers have sung the Psalms for millennia, keeping devotional truths close to their hearts and tongues. Psalms 120, 121, and 122 were sung by Israelites journeying to Jerusalem for feasts—though they can serve as a refrain for Christians on our pilgrimage to heaven as well. Alistair Begg explores the realistic feelings of the psalmist: isolation, distress, and helplessness, along with the joy of being with God’s people in places of worship. God, the maker of all creation, watches over our journeys, able to protect and save.
1In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
2Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
3What shall be given to you,
nand what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
with glowing qcoals of the broom tree!
5Woe to me, that I sojourn in rMeshech,
that I dwell among sthe tents of tKedar!
6Too long have I had my dwelling
among those who hate peace.
7uI am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war!
1I vlift up my eyes to wthe hills.
From where does my help come?
2xMy help comes from the Lord,
who ymade heaven and earth.
3He will not zlet your foot be moved;
he who akeeps you will not slumber.
4Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
5The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your bshade on your cright hand.
6dThe sun shall not estrike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
7The Lord will akeep you from all evil;
he will akeep your life.
8The Lord will keep
your fgoing out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
1I was glad when they said to me,
g“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
2Our feet have been standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3Jerusalem—hbuilt as a city
that is ibound firmly together,
4to which the tribes jgo up,
the tribes of the Lord,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5There lthrones for judgment were set,
the thrones of the house of David.
6mPray for the peace of Jerusalem!
“May they be secure who love you!
7Peace be within your nwalls
and security within your ntowers!”
8For my brothers and companions' sake
I will say, o“Peace be within you!”
9For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will pseek your good.
Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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