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

Psalms 121:7

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

  • Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; …

  • The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

  • There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

  • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …

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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