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⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
   ‘May they prosper who love you.
⁷ Peace be within your walls,
   and security within your towers.’
⁸ For the sake of my relatives and friends
   I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’
⁹ For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
   I will seek your good.

Psalm 123

Supplication for Mercy

A Song of Ascents.
¹ To you I lift up my eyes,
   O you who are enthroned in the heavens!
² As the eyes of servants
   look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid
   to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God,
   until he has mercy upon us.

³ Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
   for we have had more than enough of contempt.
⁴ Our soul has had more than its fill
   of the scorn of those who are at ease,
   of the contempt of the proud.

Psalm 124

Thanksgiving for Israel’s Deliverance

A Song of Ascents. Of David.
¹ If it had not been the Lord who was on our side
   —let Israel now say—
² if it had not been the Lord who was on our side,
   when our enemies attacked us,
³ then they would have swallowed us up alive,
   when their anger was kindled against us;
⁴ then the flood would have swept us away,
   the torrent would have gone over us;
⁵ then over us would have gone
   the raging waters.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
   who has not given us
   as prey to their teeth.
⁷ We have escaped like a bird
   from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
   and we have escaped.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord,
   who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 125

The Security of God’s People

A Song of Ascents.
¹ Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
   which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.
² As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
   so the Lord surrounds his people,
   from this time on and for evermore.
³ For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest
   on the land allotted to the righteous,
so that the righteous may not stretch out
   their hands to do wrong.
⁴ Do good, O Lord, to those who are good,
   and to those who are upright in their hearts.
⁵ But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways
   the Lord will lead away with evildoers.
   Peace be upon Israel!