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

Psalms 121:2

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

  • Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

  • So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

  • Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. …

  • Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

This psalm teaches us, I. To stay ourselves upon God as a God of power and a God all-sufficient for us. David did so and found the benefit of it. 1. We must not rely upon creatures, upon men and means, instruments and second causes, nor make flesh our arm: “ Shall I lift up my eyes to the hills ?”—so some read it. “Does my help come thence? Shall I depend upon the powers of the earth, upon the str…

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