A song of the ascents.
1 The people who rely on Yahweh are like Mount Tsiyyon,
which will not slip – it will sit permanently.
2 Yerushalaim – mountains are round it;
Yahweh – he is round his people, now and permanently.
3 Because the faithless club will not rest
over the allocation of the faithful,
In order that the faithful do not put
their hands to evil.
4Do good, Yahweh, to the people who are good,
yes, to the people who are upright in their mind.
5 But the people who bend their crooked ways,
may Yahweh make them go, the people who devise trouble;
well-being [be] on Yisra’el!
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.