The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Psalms Chapter 121.

CHAP. CXXI.

1 The great safety of the godly, who put their trust in Gods protection.

¹ [A song of degrees.] I will lift vp mine eyes vnto the hilles: from whence commeth my helpe.¹

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² My helpe commeth from the Lord: which made heauen and earth.²

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³ He will not suffer thy foote to bee moued: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he that keepeth Israel; shall neither slumber nor sleepe.

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⁵ The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade, vpon thy right hand.

⁶ The sunne shall not smite thee by day; nor the moone by night.

⁷ The Lord shall preserue thee from all euill: hee shall preserue thy soule.

⁸ The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in: from this time foorth and euen for euermore.

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