Psalm 125

1. Those who trust in the LORD resemble / Mount Zion, firm and sure, / Which ever will endure; / It stands unmoved and will not tremble. / So Israel will not be shaken / Or be forsaken. /

2. Jerusalem! The hills surround her / And mountains stand on guard / To keep her peace unmarred / When threats of enemies confound her. / So guards the LORD His own who hear Him / And praise and fear Him. /

3. The wicked’s scepter shall not humble / The land He did entrust / To people right and just, / Lest they, enticed by evil, stumble, / And they their hands to wrong be turning, / God’s counsel spurning. / W. van der Kamp, 1972; rev.