The Lord Surrounds His People.

¹Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]

Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

²As the mountains surround Jerusalem,

So the Lord surrounds His people

From this time forth and forever.

³For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous,

So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.

⁴¶Do good, O Lord , to those who are good

And to those who are upright in their hearts.

⁵But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God],

The Lord will lead them away with those who do evil.

Peace be upon Israel.