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title: "Psalm 120 (121) – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/bible/psalms/120/
description: "Psalm 120 (Psalm 121 in Hebrew numbering) in the CPDV, with the Latin Vulgate. Levavi oculos. God is the keeper of his servants. A gradual canticle."
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# Psalm 120 (121)

Psalm 120 in the Vulgate numbering Bless follows is Psalm 121 in Hebrew numbering (the NABRE, RSV and KJV). Here are all 8 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Levavi oculos. God is the keeper of his servants. A gradual canticle.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Psalm 120 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me.
2. My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
3. May he not allow your foot to be moved, and may he not slumber, who guards you.
4. Behold, he who guards Israel will neither sleep, nor slumber.
5. The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection, above your right hand.
6. The sun will not burn you by day, nor the moon by night.
7. The Lord guards you from all evil. May the Lord guard your soul.
8. May the Lord guard your entrance and your exit, from this time forward and even forever.

## Psalm 120 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Canticum graduum. Levavi oculos meos in montes, unde veniet auxilium mihi.
2. Auxilium meum a Domino, qui fecit cælum et terram.
3. Non det in commotionem pedem tuum, neque dormitet qui custodit te.
4. Ecce non dormitabit neque dormiet qui custodit Israël.
5. Dominus custodit te; Dominus protectio tua super manum dexteram tuam.
6. Per diem sol non uret te, neque luna per noctem.
7. Dominus custodit te ab omni malo; custodiat animam tuam Dominus.
8. Dominus custodiat introitum tuum et exitum tuum, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Jun 12, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 121:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
- Sun, Oct 22, 2028 (computed): Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. Mass citations number the Psalms in the Hebrew way.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).