¹ <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

⁸ But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.

⁴ The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

⁴ Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.

¹⁵ My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

¹ The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?

⁹ Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of Solomon.> If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

³ But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

⁵ Who is like the Lord our God, who is seated on high,

⁶ Looking down on the heavens, and on the earth?

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

¹ <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);