Levavi oculos. God is the keeper of his servants. A gradual canticle.
1 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.
2
My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
3
May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.
4
Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.
5
The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.
6
The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.
7
The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.
8
May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.