⁴ Behold, he who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.

¹ > Unless Yahweh builds the house, They labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, The watchman guards it in vain.

⁷ You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

¹ > Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

³ I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.