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Psalms 121:1-8

Contents: The guardian care of the Lord and the peace of His house.

Characters: God, Psalmist.

Conclusion: The Christian may stay himself upon Jehovah as a God of power, a God all-sufficient for us. Our safety is in putting ourselves under His protection.

Key Word: Keeper, Psalms 121:3.

Strong Verses: Psalms 121:2; Psalms 121:7.

Striking Facts: Psalms 121:2. Help cometh (lit) «from before the Lord.» This suggests Christ incarnate through whom God has made Himself our help and who helps us constantly by His intercession at God's right hand.

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See also Psalms 121:1-8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    PSALM CXXI _The resolution of a godly man_, 1, 2. _The safety and prosperity of such, as they and theirs shall_ _be under the continual protection of God_, 3-8. NOTES ON PSALM CXXI This appears...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES - Margin, “Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? Whence should my help come?” The expression would properly denote a condition where there was danger; when no help or aid wa...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXXI. YAHWEH'S CARE FOR HIS PEOPLE. Psalms 121:8. going out _i.e._ to the feast at Zion, and COMING IN to thy home far away, perhaps in heathen lands....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TITLE.. SONG. Hebrew. _shir_. See App-65. OF DEGREES. for, or relating to the degrees. Only here thus. Hebrew. _lamma'aloth._ See note on Title of 120. HILLS. mountains. Add. full stop. FROM WHENCE...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 714 SECURITY OF THOSE WHO TRUST IN GOD Psalms 121:1. 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. He will...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _The great safety of the godly, who put their trust in God's protection._ A Song of Degrees. _Title._ המעלות שׁיו _Shiir hammangaloth._] This psalm is thought by some to have been written by David, w...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 121 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah the True Helper and Keeper of Israel. ANALYSIS (See Inserted Headlines.) (Lm.) Song of the Steps. (THE KING, SEEING JERUSALEM SURROUNDED BY AN ARMY.) 1 I ke...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. The pilgrims' even-song as they caught the first sight of the hills (Psalms 121:1) round Jerusalem. In Psalms 122:1 they reach a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HILLS] RV 'mountains.' The mountains suggest strength, and the Psalmist asks a question, 'Whence shall _my_ help come?' The answer is given in Psalms 121:2 : 'from Him who made the mountains and all e...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The song of the traveller, whose guide is Jehovah....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHENCE. — Our version is certainly incorrect in following the LXX. and Vulg. in making _whence_ a relative. The Hebrew word is always interrogative; even in Joshua 2:4 it is indirectly interrogative....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שִׁ֗יר לַֽ † מַּ֫עֲלֹ֥ות אֶשָּׂ֣א עֵ֭ינַי אֶל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 121:1 How many timid, anxious hearts has this sweet outpouring of quiet trust braced and lifted to its own serene height of conscious safety! This psalmist is so absorbed in the thought of his...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This song, so full of beauty, marks another stage in the approach of the worshiper in that it sets forth his assurance of the present help of Jehovah. The singer is still far from the appointed place...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HELP FROM THE HILLS_ ‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.’ Psalms 121:1 In these first words of one of the greatest Psalms of David, the nobleness which we immediat...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    l_I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. _The inspired writer, whoever he was, seems, in the opening of the Psalm, to speak in the person of an unbelieving man. As God prevents his believing people...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 121 Jehovah is assuredly declared to be his protection. He who never slumbers nor sleeps He will not suffer his foot to be moved. The general intention is plain. I am not quite sure what is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS,.... Not to the hills and mountains in Judea, looking about to see if the inhabitants of them, or any bodies of men, appeared upon them to his help in distress;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills_ To Zion and Moriah, called the holy mountains, Psalms 87:1, the hills on which the tabernacle or temple stood, where were the ark of the covenant, the oracle,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will lift up mine eyes, in anxious, yet trustful desire and longing, UNTO THE HILLS, regarded as the throne of Jehovah, FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP, or, in the form of a question, "From whence will c...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GUARDIAN CARE OF THE LORD. A song of degrees, full of believing fervor due to the consciousness of the fellowship of God with His children on earth....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS, FROM WHENCE COMETH MY HELP: Or, shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? whence should my help come?...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PSALM 121 THE ARGUMENT The matter of this Psalm sufficiently showeth that the psalmist was conflicting with great difficulties and oppositions, and looking. hither and thither for help, as men in such...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    A SONG OF DEGREES Literally, "of ascents." Perhaps chanted by the people as they went up to Jerusalem to the feasts. See, for example (Psalms 112:1); (Psalms 112:2)....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 121:1 To the mind of the Jewish poet the everlasting hills of his native land were as shadows of the Infinite. The security which these mountain-ranges afforded to Palestine, forming as they d...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 121 There is an affinity between souls and hills, especially for those who have become acquainted with their own solemn depths and sublime heights. In man's earthly estate wonderful heights are...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 121:1 In these first words of one of the greatest Psalms of David, the nobleness which we immediately feel seems to lie in this, that David will seek help only from the highest source. Nothing...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 121:1. _I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help._ It is wise to look to the strong for strength. Dwellers in valleys are subject to many disorders for which there i...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 121:1. _I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help._ No help comes from anywhere else but from the eternal hills. Let us lift up our eyes, therefore, hopefully expecti...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 121:1. _I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills._ Zion and mount Moriah, on which the temple stood. See on Psalms 125:2. REFLECTIONS. In the preseding psalm we found the man of God mourning i...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills._ GUARANTEED SECURITY I. The godly man’s need. “Help.” Can never outgrow this: dependence the characteristic of the creature: “help” must be had in the confl...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hills — To Sion and Moriah, which are called the holy mountains....

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