1 When we travel toward Jerusalem,

I look up toward the hills and I ask myself, "Who will help me?"

2 And my answer is that Yahweh is the one who helps me;

he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

3 He will not allow us to fall/stumble;

God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.

4 The one who protects us Israeli people

never gets sleepy, nor does he sleep [LIT].

5 Yahweh watches over us;

he is like the shade [MET] that protects us from the sun.

6 He will not allow the sun to harm us during the day,

and he will not allow the moon to harm us during the night.

7 Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner;

he will keep us safe.

8 He will protect us from the time that we leave our houses in the morning until we return in the evening;

he will protect us now, and he will protect us forever.