They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the young lion and the serpent.

May he not suffer thy foot, to slip, May thy keeper, not slumber!

Lo! neither will slumber nor sleep, The keeper of Israel.

The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

{A Song of degrees. Of Solomon.} Unless Jehovah build the house, in vain do its builders labour in it; unless Jehovah keep the city, the keeper watcheth in vain: