Psalms 121

¹A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

Psa 121:1-8. God’s guardian care of His people celebrated. 1. I will lift up mine eyes--expresses desire (compare Psa 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,

²My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

2. by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Psa 115:15), to which,

³He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

3-4. His sleepless vigilance is added. to be moved--(Compare Psa 38:16; 66:9).

⁵The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

5. upon thy right hand--a protector’s place (Psa 109:31; 110:5).

⁶The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

⁷The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

⁸The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

6-8. God keeps His people at all times and in all perils. nor the moon by night--poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides (Ge 1:16).