Yesterday was my birthday. Today, as I was searching online for the noonday psalm, I found that there were many psalms assigned for my birthday. Here there are.
Psalm 120
When I was in trouble I called to the Lord,*
I called to the Lord and he answered me.
Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips*
and from the deceitful tongue.
What shall be done to you and what more besides,*
O you deceitful tongue?
The sharpened arrows of a warrior,*
along with hot glowing coals.
How hateful it is that I must lodge in Meshech*
and dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Too long have I had to live*
among the enemies of peace.
I am on the side of peace,*
but when I speak of it, they are for war.
Psalm 121
I lift up my eyes to the hills;*
from where is my help to come?
My help comes from the Lord,*
the maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved*
and he who watches over you will not fall asleep.
Behold, he who keeps watch over Israel*
shall neither slumber nor sleep;
The Lord himself watches over you;*
the Lord is your shade at your right hand,
So that the sun shall not strike you by day,*
nor the moon by night.
The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;*
it is he who shall keep you safe.
The Lord shall watch over your going out
and your coming in,*
from this time forth for evermore.
Psalm 122
I was glad when they said to me,*
‘Let us go to the house of the Lord.’
Now our feet are standing*
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is built as a city*
that is at unity with itself.
To which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,*
the assembly of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.
For there are the thrones of judgement,*
the thrones of the house of David.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:*
‘May they prosper who love you.
‘Peace be within your walls*
and quietness within your towers.
‘For my family and companions’ sake,*
I pray for your prosperity.
‘Because of the house of the Lord our God,*
I will seek to do you good.’
Psalm 123
To you I lift up my eyes,*
to you enthroned in the heavens.
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,*
and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the Lord our God,*
until he show us his mercy.
Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy,*
for we have had more than enough of contempt,
Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich,*
and of the derision of the proud.
Psalm 124
If the Lord had not been on our side,*
let Israel now say;
If the Lord had not been on our side,*
when enemies rose up against us;
Then would they have swallowed us up alive*
in their fierce anger towards us;
Then would the waters have overwhelmed us*
and the torrent gone over us;
Then would the raging waters*
have gone right over us.
Blessèd be the Lord!*
he has not given us over to be a prey for their teeth.
We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowler;*
the snare is broken and we have escaped.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,*
the maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 125
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,*
which cannot be moved, but stands fast for ever.
The hills stand about Jerusalem;*
so does the Lord stand round about his people,
from this time forth for evermore.
The sceptre of the wicked shall not hold sway
over the land allotted to the just,*
so that the just shall not put their hands to evil.
Show your goodness, O Lord, to those who are good*
and to those who are true of heart.
As for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will lead them away with the evildoers;*
but peace be upon Israel.
