John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes on the Bible (1765)

Psalms 121

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Verse 1

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

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

Verse 5

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

Shade - To keep thee from the burning heat of the sun.

Verse 6

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

Smite - With excessive heat. Moon - With that cold and moisture which come into the air by it. Intemperate heats and colds are the springs of many diseases.