① 1I lift up my eyes to the mountains –
from where shall come my help?
2My help comes from the Lord,
maker of heaven and earth.
3Will he let your foot slip,
the one watching over you?
Will he slumber?
4No, the guardian of Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.
5The Lord is your guardian, the Lord is at your side and you in his shade;
6Sunstroke will not be for you by day,
nor the spell of the moon by night.
7The Lord guards you from every evil;
he will protect your life.
8The Lord watches over your coming and going
both now and forever.
- The pilgrim lifts his face toward the Temple on the height of Zion. It is the earthly home of the one God, tireless guardian of Israel. We, too, journey ‘to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem’ with which the old Jerusalem of stone, cannot compare. ‘We have here no lasting city and we are looking for the one to come’ (Heb 13:14).
God is faithful, he watches by day and by night. On the road to Emmaus, Jesus accompanies them but they do not recognize him. ‘If God is with us, who could be against us?’ Prayer for the beginning of a difficult task:a conversion, a vocation, the beginning of a family, risks taken for the good of all.
