Talk + Add to Library Download Audio

1. Pilgrim’s Progress

David Jackman

16 August 1992

Psalm 120:1-122:9

PassageNotes/Handout

Psalm 120:1-122:9

Deliver Me, O Lord

A Song of Ascents.

In 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,
    and what more shall be done to you,
    you deceitful tongue?
⁴A warrior’s sharp arrows,
    with glowing coals of the broom tree!

⁵Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
    that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
⁶Too long have I had my dwelling
    among those who hate peace.
⁷I am for peace,
    but when I speak, they are for war!

My Help Comes from the Lord

A Song of Ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
²My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

³He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
⁴Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
⁶The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.

⁷The Lord will keep you from all evil;
    he will keep your life.
⁸The Lord will keep
    your going out and your coming in
    from this time forth and forevermore.

Let Us Go to the House of the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
²Our feet have been standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem!

³Jerusalem—built as a city
    that is bound firmly together,
⁴to which the tribes go up,
    the tribes of the Lord,
as was decreed for Israel,
    to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
⁵There thrones for judgment were set,
    the thrones of the house of David.

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
    “May they be secure who love you!
⁷Peace be within your walls
    and security within your towers!”
⁸For my brothers and companions’ sake
    I will say, “Peace be within you!”
⁹For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your good.