A SONG OF ASCENTS — the title heading fifteen psalms in a row, 120-134, from ALAH, to go UP; the only run of consecutive psalms in the Psalter that all share one label. Jewish tradition offers two explanations that do not cancel each other: sung by pilgrims literally going up to Jerusalem, on a ridge, for the three pilgrim feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16); or sung one by one on the fifteen steps rising from the Court of the Women to the Court of Israel in the Temple (Mishnah, Middot 2:5). ⚠ Psalm 121 is the first of the fifteen on this shelf; the other fourteen remain untranslated here. → first discussed at Psalms 121:1