Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 121:2
My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made (a) heaven and earth.
(a) He accuses man's ingratitude, which cannot depend on God's power.
My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made (a) heaven and earth.
(a) He accuses man's ingratitude, which cannot depend on God's power.
Verse Psalms 121:2. _MY HELP_ COMETH _FROM THE LORD_] There is no help for me but in my God; and I expect it from no other quarter....
MY HELP COMETH FROM THE LORD - From Yahweh. This is the answer to the anxious inquiry in Psalms 121:1. It indicates (a) a consciousness that help could come only from God; (b) a belief that it would...
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...
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....
MY HELP. Figure of speech, _Anadiplosis_, repeated from end of Psalms 121:1. THE LORD. _Jehovah_ (App-4.), not the hills. WHICH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH. The reference is to the burden of Hezekiah's pra...
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...
MY HELP COMETH FROM THE LORD— _My help is from the house of the Lord._ מעם _Meim,_ is not _from the Lord,_ but _from with the Lord;_ from where he resides....
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...
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. MY HELP COMETH FROM THE LORD, WHICH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH - and who has at command, therefore, inexhaustible means of help for His people...
The song of the traveller, whose guide is Jehovah....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 121 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
MY HELP COMETH... — Not as the superstition of the Canaanite said, from the sacred summits themselves, but from their Creator’s Lord. It is noticeable that the style, “maker of heaven and earth,” is a...
עֶ֭זְרִי מֵ עִ֣ם יְהוָ֑ה עֹ֝שֵׂ֗ה שָׁמַ֥יִם ו
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...
WHERE TO FIND HELP Psalms 120:1; Psalms 121:1 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of the country to...
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...
_Were. Hebrew also, "shall," &c. Yet many of the Levites had officiated in the temple, 1 Esdras iii. 12. --- Courts, or gates, where justice was administered. (Calmet) --- We may better (Haydock) rejo...
From the opening of the Psalm under the several views which I have humbly offered, every part that follows will be easy to apprehend, without enlarging the comment. Every believing soul who looks to G...
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...
MY HELP [COMETH] FROM THE LORD, WHICH MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH. Who helps his people out of the hands of all their enemies, and out of all their troubles and afflictions; he helps them in the performance...
My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Ver. 2. _My help cometh from the Lord_] To whom, therefore, alone I must look for help. _Sursum corda, sursum etiam capita._ Naturalists t...
_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,...
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth, His creative power being a pledge of His ability to rescue those who trust in Him from all dangers. In order to strengthen this trust still m...
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....
From God alone, and therefore to him alone will I turn mine eyes....
Psalms 121:2 help H5828 LORD H3068 made H6213 (H8802) heaven H8064 earth H776 My help - Psalms
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...
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...
Psalms 121:2 This expression of dependence upon God is not merely a formal act of piety, but the utterance of a truth which is seen to be more profoundly true for all of us the more we think of it. I...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth._ TURNING CREATION TO ACCOUNT This_, _indeed, is turning creation to account. It is thought a great thing to have a patron who is distinguis...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 121:1. This psalm seems to be intended to encourage confidence in those making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem (see note on Psalm 120 for the Songs of Ascents). The successful j...
INTRODUCTION This “Song of the Ascents”—a title slightly varying from that of each of the other Gradual Psalms—is as suitable as any for the Israelite’s use when not leaving his home for the earthly J...
EXPOSITION THE preceding psalm is one of complaint; the present, one of comfort and consolation. The pilgrim lifts up his eyes to the hills, and is satisfied that help is coming to him. He then proce...
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills (Psalms 121:1), For there is Jerusalem, there in the mountains of Jerusalem, up there in the hills. There is that city. There is where I'm going to stand befor...
Hebrews 13:6; Hosea 13:9; Isaiah 40:28; Isaiah 40:29; Isaiah 41:13;...