The psalm may be understood literally, as a prayer of the persecuted who has taken refuge in the temple, or figuratively, of one who has taken refuge in God. (120-7) The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul. Get our Question of the Week delivered right to your inbox! What does Psalm chapter 121 mean? The theme of Psalm 121 is God's care of His people. Variations of the Hebrew root word for "keep" appear in verses 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. This is the same term used in Genesis 2:15 to describe Adam's intended role in Eden. The sense of the word is to watch over. Psalm 121:7 (MSG) God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. It sounds from the bright bands of the morning, from the high silver-tinted clouds of noonday, from the splendor and glory of the far-off sunset, from the lofty trees and the hill-tops, and the soaring birds of song, and the winds that roam free, and the "jewel-powdered skies" of night. Dont forget him. The one prominent word in the psalm is "keep:" the whole psalm is about the Lord God's sure keeping of his people, and that this might be impressed on the mind, the writer six times over in the last five verses of the psalm repeats this word "keep." He does not faint or grow weary (Isaiah 40:28). "Some trust in horses, and some in chariots," and some in mountains; "but we will trust in the Name of the Lord. We are not required to ascend the mountainous track to Jerusalem, thrice yearly to plead for forgiveness and mercy, for we have the Spirit of God residing forever in our hearts and by the sacrifice of Christ's blood, we have access into the holy throne-room of God every moment of the day. F26; and so one that, wherever he comes Shall I depend upon the strength of the hills? He who "made heaven and earth" (Psalms 121:2) can do anything, everything, for us. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! Remain dependent on him. The writer is oppressed with the burdens and sorrows of exile; he remembers Zion, and he sings his soul to quietness and peace by looking away from present cares to the high hills of God, and cheers his drooping spirit by remembering how, amid all the earth-changes, the everlasting hills abide. Psalms 121. A Song of degrees. 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. not in the *Hebrew Bible. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. We ask the question: who is 'the LORD'? III. To get what Psalm 121:7 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. TO OUR EXPERIENCES OF SORROW AND OF GLADNESS. As there are poison-germs in the natural atmosphere, which generate disease in us when our vitality and resisting power are low, so there are poison-germs in the moral atmosphere of our everyday associations, which only cultured spiritual life can enable us to resist. God has made our journeyings safe by means of what we call the inventions of science and the resources of civilization. Men) , which signifies "his good" or "pleasant foot" Uncertainties; possibly some very great joy, or some overwhelming sorrow, or some very sore perplexity, or even the last experience of death. 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills : from whence cometh my help. 6-8. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. It never ceases but it is replenished every dawn (Lamentations 3:2223). Psalm 121:7 (NIV) He is always near his people for their protection and refreshment. And in the New Jerusalem, one of its sweetest promises was that its people should "go no more out forever." Our English dislike of using the same word repeatedly accounts for this change, and causes the loss of impressiveness which the repeated reverberations of the one emphatic word "keep" were intended to produce. All kinds of evil. And the mountains still soothe and calm God's people. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Also, he would *protect What does Psalms 121 mean? If the soul be kept, all is kept. It is not one Israelite alone over whom God will watch unceasingly, but the whole people of Israel. The hurry and bustle of thousands who are hasting to be rich. The psalmist is, as it were, holding a colloquy with himself. II. 2. v8 The *LORD *guards is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. 2. by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge ( Psalms 115:15 ), to which. Psalm 121:7 (GNTA) 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills : from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Look up; you will feel the heaven-breath upon your face. you and be the one that *guards you. The official youth channel for pursueGOD.org. Psalm 121:7 (NCV) Is it Jesus or Yeshua? Read full chapter. Psalm 130 is the 130th psalm of the Book of Psalms, one of the Penitential psalms. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Psalm 121:7 (TMBA) One thing about them is suggested by our textthey make us look up. Psalm 121:7 (DBY) Thee Lord shall preserve them from all evil. He will take care that his people shall not fall. But the man does not know the peril of his physical condition. 2 My help cometh from the LORD : who hath made heaven and earth.What does the Bible say about God never sleeping? He made the *heaven and the earth. THE PROMISE MAY BE TRUE TO THE HEART WHEN ITS FULFILLMENT IS NOT APPARENT TO THE EYE. He will attend us to the close of life (Psalms 121:8). The one that *guards Israel will never sleep. Clearly it is but a poetical way of saying, that the defense and guidance and benediction of Jehovah shall rest on the godly man in all the actions and relations of his everyday life. The promise that the Lord watches over His people extends from every day to eternity (Psalm 121:8). Psalms 121:7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; or, "keep thee." Psalm 121:7 (YLT) so long as thou hast "goings out" and "comings in." stars". We have been taught to realize that God is Spirit, and dwells near us, as well as in the far-off mountains and in distant worlds. Our Lord sought seclusion among the hills of Eastern Galilee, and entered into the Divine glory on a spur of Hermon. Psalm 121:7-8 The Lord will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. An EasyEnglish Translation with Notes (about 1200 word Just because you follow God, it doesnt mean that you will not face tough times in life. Psalm 121:5-6. preserve, but prosper in all, ( Psalms 1:3 ) ; the Lord What does Psalms 121:7-8 mean? Every Christian faces challenges. the *LORD. "With his dear Son he freely gives us all things." He *guards you from dangers that you do not know about, (verse 7). These were the chief dangers of travelers, whether pilgrims or others. He alone has both the power and the will to assist me. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. All rights reserved. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. hills (verse 1). Psalms 76-150, Holman Old Testament Commentary by Steven Lawson. whom the Lord blessed, as he says, "since my coming", or at "my Psalms 121:8. For to men in this world God's voice is ever calling. Tehillim 121:7 (OJB) *guarding you (verses 3, 4). v4 It is certain that But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. We must not only look around, but above, must "lift up our eyes to the hills, from whence cometh our help," for our "help cometh from the Lord" (Psalms 121:1, Psalms 121:2). indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. It is not for the godless, but for the regenerated people of God. Certainties; duties, difficulties, vexations, trials, temptations, opportunities. Now the verses in Psalms are pretty straightforward, verse 4 says, God will neither slumber nor sleep. And he wants to help you through lifes most difficult circumstances. Thank him. What does Psalm 121 verse 8 mean? The LORD will protect you from all evil; God will protect your very life. And for ourselves the promise holds good. word list at the end explains all the words that have a *star by them. The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.. (The Lord shall keep thee safe from all evil; yea, the Lord shall keep thee safe.). The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. Taking the second idea, we come upon God's continued interest in, and care for, the new life he has quickened in our souls. The LORD will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. Which made heaven and earth; i.e. Elijah was calmed, and made himself again, by the soothing influences of Horeb, the mount of God. II. For them. Variations of the Hebrew root word for "keep" appear in verses 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. No one can snatch Gods sheep out of his hand (John 10:2730), and the one who has justified will never again condemn (Romans 8:3334). By his wonderful overrulings, which constantly turn seeming evil into real and permanent good. "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills," etc. Psalm 121:7-8 The Lord will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalms 121:3. II. His concern for the material life does but illustrate his care for the spiritual life ("This is the will of God, even our sanctification"). v1 When I look up to What a glorious promise. It is in the form of a dialogue.. Ver. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Where will my help come from? Old Testament. How powerfully we are all drawn by world-interests! They look for good. The term "soul" stands often in the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments for the animal life; but we use it for that spiritual being which man is, as distinguished from that bodily form which man has. The Lord will protect you from all dangers; he will guard your life. 5. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. The greater includes the less. Were on a mission to change that. Psalm 121 (This is) a song for climbing. We have sometimes to face the future, and then we confront: 1. If we dont have a plan for when, where, and how we will read the Bible, our devotions will probably fall before the demands of the day. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. "Soul-keeping is the soul of keeping. hills. ", II. His gracious power will overshadow us at every step we take. you when you go out. God gives to his beloved sleep (Psalm 127:2), and we are able to rest only because we know God never does. The assurance rises from the particular to the general. Thou shalt not be hurt, neither by the open assaults, nor by the secret attempts of thine enemies. I. he will not sleep. The psalmist addresses himself with consolatory assurances. IV. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy soul. (here, God and his people). They teach us to look up. But the very force he puts into life may unduly magnify self; and it is much more to say that God will keep him from ensnaring self. "thy defense." This is more necessary in a watchman than keeping awake; he must be quick to observe, attentive, noticing everything. They are but God's instruments for our good. Recognizes the relation of what he sees to his people. "The redeemed of the Lord shall come with joy and singing," etc. to be moved--(Compare Psalms 38:16 , 66:9 ). *LORD is a special name for God. Most modern critics regard this clause as interrogative, and translate, "Whence is it that my help shall come?" Or illustrate from the sick-bed of the sufferer. I. Now, in this beautiful psalm we have a notable instance of such different rendering. Psalm 121:7 (CEB) Words in brackets, ( ), are The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD will keep you from all evil. The Lord will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life. Absolute security of defense lies in God, and we may fully trust in him. Drunkenness ruining a life is evil. God's guardian care of His people celebrated. We think evil to be that which injuriously affects our circumstances; God sees evil as that which injuriously affects us. The right hand is the working hand; let them but turn to their duty, and they shall find God ready to give them success. the hills I find no help there. To succeed in earthly things we must engage the whole heart and powers in them. It is almighty wisdom that contrives, and almighty power that works the safety of those that put themselves under God's protection. If we could just lift up our eyes to hills and to the heavens beyond, we would catch a glimpse of the powerful God who created all of this vast universe. This last has sometimes been doubted, but the observation of modern travelers seems to show that bad effects actually fellow on sleeping in the moonlight in hot countries. This psalm teaches us to comfort ourselves in the Lord, when difficulties and dangers are greatest. But everything the world presents to us is below us, beneath us; and it so keeps us looking down that the habit of down-looking grows upon us, and we are almost unable to look up. "The darkness and the light are both alike to him."R.T. Looking up, you feel how pure God's snow is, and think how much is in the promise, "They shall walk with me in white.". Psalm 121 The God Who Keeps and Helps. It shows us how God helps us when life gets hard. Those who trust and worship God may expect to pass through the valley of weeping. upon princes and great men? Consequently, some of the things which we call evil God does not so call, because their influence on us is good. God always sees in events that happen persons acting; and in their motives and moods and wills he sees evil or good. As they ascended the hilly slopes of Jerusalem, their faces were steadfastly set towards the place that represented the Presence of the Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, in the most holy place There are luxuries, listlessnesses, selfishnesses, of our very resting-times; rod we need God for our coming in lest the self or self-indulgence should gain undue power over us.R.T. Such is a frequent meaning of the expression, "going out and coming in" (see Deuteronomy 28:6, Deuteronomy 28:19; Deuteronomy 23:20; Joshua 1:7; 1 Samuel 29:6). Moses was helped to realize the power of Jehovah by the daily impressions of the huge, craggy, awful mountain forms of Sinai. Psalm 121:7 (CSB) Far from the busy crowd. II. The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul. Whether your sleepless nights are filled with tears and prayers, diaper changing, or paper writing, God is with you with all the energy and grace you need. (He will do this) now and always. How can you tell if God is trying to tell you something? It is a protection for life. By his merciful defendings: "No plague shall come nigh thy dwelling." Dishonesty found out is evil. you help. The sun strikes the man who is in a physical condition to receive the stroke. I have seen in Africa the newly littered young perish in a few hours, if exposed to the rays of the full moon. The same verb is used throughout. The time is fast approaching when today's door of grace will be shut fast and God will take us to be with Himself before He begins to pour out His wrath on a Christ-rejecting, sinful and rebellious generation. The pillar-cloud of the Divine presence was always there, night and day; and never anything could happen to Israel that was not divinely permitted. with someone). God agreed to *protect his Believe it. Indeed, the Hebrew word for "slumber" is the stronger term of the two. TO THE MORNING AND EVENING OF LIFE. 2. What does I lift my eyes to the hills mean? The Lord The restored exiles may well gain and keep full confidence in God, seeing that he had kept their national life through such anxious and imperiling times. Buchanan, writing with the Cuchullin hills all about him, says. And we need the assurance of God's defense even against open and well-known evils, because he only can know the particular peril which lies in their relativity to us at any given time. 5. We must come within the circle of the covenanted people of God ere we can lay claim to the fulfillment of a psalm like this. Psalms 121:7. He fled to the mountains; but God preserved him, not the mountain. THE GENERAL RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENTIAL CARE IS AS HERE SET FORTH. the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Now in the three former verses out of these five our version adheres to the word "keep," but in the last two it changes over to the less forcible word "preserve." : any one of 15 psalms in the series Ps 120 to 134 sung by Hebrew pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem or possibly while ascending Mount Zion or the steps of the Temple. Psalm 121:7 (RSVA) All rights reserved. My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. "Our help cometh from the Lord."S.C. 8The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. But the encouraging this is that God is here to help you through your challenges. Their provision and protection came only from the Lord. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 8. thy going out, &c.--all thy ways ( Deuteronomy 28:19 , Psalms 104:23 ). Read the psalm and change "you" or "your" to Look to him at any hour in the light or in the night. Who do you turn to in times of crisis? Genesis The phrase is an equivalent of "The Lord shall preserve thee in all thy ways" (Psalms 91:11). The grand, calm, strong, high thingsthey seem to be so near God; they seem to be so full of God; they bring us so near him, and fill us so full of him. nor the moon by night--poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides ( Genesis 1:16 ). With him is all power. He will be our Keeper, our Shade upon our right hand (Psalms 121:5). 3. The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. Not from the evil of affliction, though from that as a penal evil; or as a real one, it being made to 2017 QuotesCosmos Home About Privacy Terms Principles Sitemap Contact. Psalms 121:1. Maybe its a friend or your mom. Use the scale on the left to tell how often the verses below are googled compared to each other. And if we truly desire it, the Lord will keep our going out and our coming in, in this sense also. 1. Look up, and grow strong. A thousand things in common life, that seem to have no more Power of mischief in them than have the moonbeams. Hashem shall preserve thee from kol rah; He shall preserve thy nefesh. Illustrate from the times of Lot. In Psalm 121:3b-4 we are told, [God] who keeps you will not slumber. He guards your life. Are we to give up our faith in the blessed guardianship of God, and to consign to the category of credulity the trust which this psalm encourages? No doubt our translators did their best to find synonymswords, that is, which though, different in sound, have the same sensestill the senses so given are only similar, and may not be seen by ordinary readers to be so similar as it was thought they were. Quotes available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The opening two verses form a poetic question and answer: I lift up my The Lord will protect you from all danger; he will keep you safe. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress. Deu 28:6; 1 Samuel 29:6; The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). When the psalmist declared, therefore, He will not allow your foot to slip, he was most likely speaking of the perseverance of the saints. In his rendering, Bloch presents a shirtless black man with his eyes lifted unto the hills, seeking relief from God. Lament Psalms. By his wise upholdings: "Will not suffer thy foot to be moved." Context Summary. The Hebrew of verse 4 suggests a development from what precedes. The Spirit, who is their Preserver and Comforter, shall abide with them for ever. Christians believe in good. The sure confidence we have today that we will remain with God tomorrow is God himself. 2023 Caniry - All Rights Reserved THE SUN IS THE TYPE OF THE OPEN PERILS OF THE GODLY LIFE. Psalm 121:7 (WYC) 1. Taking the first idea, it may be shown that God's care of our natural life involves and includes all due provision for the thousandfold needs of that life. We need to be kept of God. Psalms 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. It has, indeed, no moral quality that he can recognize. Metrically, the psalm falls into four stanzas of four lines each. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. It is only an agency for securing evil or good. 5The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. GOD MISSES WHAT MAN SEES. After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. Psalm 121:7 (NRSA) We shall best appreciate it if we consider. And the shadow of God's curse on sin resting everywhere. made the *heaven (the sky and the stars) and the earth. travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only Warren Wiersbe describes the Valley of Baca as any difficult and painful place in life, where everything seems hopeless and you feel helpless, like the pit of despair. Otherwise they are of no good at all, any more than the strains of sweetest music are to the deaf, or the most beautiful scenery to the blind. God will keep him then. If you are looking to the Lord for your help, He will preserve you from all evil. And he *guards you when you come in. Under this shade they may sit with delight and assurance. THE "COMING IN" OF LIFE MAY INDICATE ITS PASSIVITIES AND QUIET RELATION-strips. This is the second of the series of psalms which are titled A Song of Ascents. God watches over your life from Psalm 121:7 (JUB) Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. It might seem as if the salvation of the soul from spiritual death were all we need be anxious about; but God never urges this point upon us. 2 My help cometh from the LORD : who hath made heaven and earth. It was the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth and not the hills to whom they looked for help. 30:30); and such a foot Joseph had wherever he went, ( THE MOON IS THE TYPE OF THE SECRET PERILS OF THE GODLY LIFE. He will preserve the soul, that it be not defiled by sin, and disturbed by affliction; he will preserve it from perishing eternally. Now the verses in Psalms are pretty straightforward, verse 4 says, God will neither slumber nor sleep. ADONAI will guard you against all harm; he will guard your life. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And such persons, in the Punic language, "*Protect They knew their strength and their help. "But"so ask not a few"is all that true? If you travelled from home to Jerusalem, you would go through This same God is the One from Whom our help comes. THE MOUNTAINS CAN DIRECT US WHERE TO FIND HELP AND SAFETY. says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems Yahweh will keep you from all evil. in There are enervating influences, suggestive examples. v4 It is certain that he will not sleep. Words in boxes are from the Bible. The Lord the Keeper of Israel. But in comparison with the soul's well-being, God counts these things as of no importance. They do not remain with us; parents die; brothers and sisters are scattered far and wide; friends become estranged. THE PROMISE IS NOT FOR EVERY COMMUNITY, BUT FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 1. Might stood for right, and hence the "going out and coming in" of Israel in those days was ever attended with much peril. The LORD guards you from every evil. 4. He They appeal to both poetic and religious feeling. OUR IDEA OF BEING KEPT AND GOD'S IDEA MAY BE VERY DIFFERENT. It is only as man's spiritual nature is quickened that moral evil, as distinct from moral calamity, is apprehended. Popularity relative to other verses in Psalm chapter 121 using average monthly Google searches. But the very reverse was the truth. "*Protect you" means "stop people The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.. The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. And then there are brought forward the long array of facts which seem to make against the truth of this word. The Lord shall keep thee inwardly and outwardly soul and body alike, from all evil and in all thy ways. It is the steadfast love of the Lord To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. 28:6 ) ; and such, with the poet F24, are said to go with a Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. We must look beyond our circumstances, beyond the immediate concerns, beyond the enemies that surround us. But God does not call calamity evil. We go out in the morning refreshed, vigorous, full of conscious power, and in some peril of stir-reliance. What is the value of all God's providential mercies, his blessed keeping of us in health and external well-beingwhat is the value of it except for the effect it has upon our minds? For man evil is calamity. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.. Protection was especially needed on the right hand, as the side which no shield guarded. THE preceding psalm is one of complaint; the present, one of comfort and consolation. He must receive the Holy Ghost, have the heavens opened unto him, and know God, and then sin against him. Psalms 121:7 At first glance, Psalm 121:7 offers tremendous assurance. Psalm 121:7 (HNV) Look up and listen, and again the voices of the hills will say, "The mists and the storms are all outside us; they are not us." This publication is written in EasyEnglish Level A (1200 words). God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; or, "keep thee." *covenant is when two or more people agree together. Worn out, the nurse may fall asleep, but the eye of the God of all consolation is never dimmed (see Psalms 139:1-24.). My help (cometh) from Jehovah, the Maker of heaven and earth. v6 The sun will not As they ascended the hilly slopes of Jerusalem, their faces were steadfastly set towards the place that represented the Presence ofthe Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, in the most holy place in the Temple of God, and the Mercy Seat whereby their sins could be covered until the promised Messiah of Israel came as the perfect Sacrifice. The band of pilgrims who set out from Babylon to return to their native land and to re-establish the worship of God were a special and a holy company, and God did keep them as they journeyed on along the weary wilderness-ways. After personally celebrating Yahwehs guardianship in verses 12, the The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. AS APPLYING TO THE WHOLE OF OUR ACTIVE LIFE. He is a wakeful, watchful Keeper; he is never weary; he not only does not sleep, but he does not so much as slumber. We cannot think o, any place, however remote, or obscure, or humble, where he will not be with his defending, delivering hand. Psalms 121:8. Three times a year, the men of Israel would set out for Jerusalem to celebrate the feasts of the Lord and to worship their God at the Holy Temple, which stood majestically at the top of Mount Zion. Then God will II. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. Prayers for Gods deliverance in moments of despair. of This is true in the physical sphere. Psalm 121:7 (ESV) Psalm 121:7 (TMB) He guards your life. Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. If he were but free from the answering of his moral evil, nothing that could happen would be a real calamity.R.T. Psalm 121:7 (KJVA) "Shall I lift up mine eyes unto the hills? Business man is world-absorbed. Psalm 121:7 (GNT) The spiritually awakened man sees evil as God sees it; and, therefore, when he prays to be kept from all evil, he means kept from himselffrom the evil that is in him. This psalm gives us a picture of a Christian pilgrim with a deep longing for God finding the greatest blessedness in his journey being the worship of the Lord. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. In the cloudless skies of the East, where the moon shines with such exceeding clearness, its effects upon the human frame have been found most injurious. He will keep thee in life and death; going out to thy labour in the morning of thy days, and coming home to thy rest when the evening of old age calls thee in. Disaster, disease, disappointment, defeat, occupy man's thoughts, and are, properly enough, from his point of view, classed as evils. Where is God when life gets hard? So strange is the frailty of human nature, that men are over-mastered by the very things they know well, are warned against, and even think themselves strong to resist. What mercy! 5 The Lord watches over you. He is always there to give California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. The LORD will keep you from every kind of harm. The psalmist takes pride in the goodness of God in which he finds safety. about it; in all ways, works, and conversation; in journeying and This comes out plainly in Perowne's rendering, "Whence should my help come? The one duty of the watchman is to keep ever, through his watching-time, awake and alert. Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. Fish become rapidly putrid, and meat, if left exposed, incurable or unpreservable by salt. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in (comp. He *guards So, verse 1 begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. He will guard us from all forms of evil. It needs to be always kept in mind that the power of temptation depends on the physical, mental, or spiritual condition in which we are found when it assails us. What promise! In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. In whatever special circumstances, or for whatever particular occasion, this psalm may have been written, it is certain that it is admirably suited to suggest New Year's thoughts to our minds. Psalm 121:7 (BBE) Look again at what we read in verse 2. We come in to rest, enjoy; we come in to home relationships and quiet occupations; and we seldom suspect that there is a possible exaggerating of self in our times of passivity, as truly as in our times of activity. And how we need to be kept amid our daily work and business! The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming But because of his ever-sustaining mercy, your faith will remain. New American Standard Bible Chapter Parallel Psalm 121:7 (NAS) The LORD will protect you from all evil; He THE "GOING OUT" OF LIFE MAY INDICATE ITS ACTIVITIES AND ENTERPRISES. ); plagiarize. There God had "promised his blessing, even life forevermore" (Psalms 133:3). Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.. one that *guards you from all danger. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. "This God is our God forever and ever, he will be our guide even unto death" (Psalms 48:14). Quarrelsomeness breaking friendship is evil. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. affordable homes for sale in mexico, luby's pistachio jello recipe, javier time traveler 2027 debunked, cheap studio apartments in west hollywood, prince philip favorite hymn, lana turner cause of death, epworth times obituaries, ryobi golf cart fan, the real sonny lospecchio, when will woodsmith mine open, are 911 calls public record in michigan, list of munros excel, does eddie bauer run big or small, fox labs pepper spray discontinued, growell organo patio mix, Creator of the huge, craggy, awful mountain forms of Sinai: may the Lord will keep safe! 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