PSALM 121

Ps 121:1-8. God's guardian care of His people celebrated.

1. I will lift up mine eyes-expresses desire (compare Ps 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,

2 My 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 (Ps 115:15), to which,

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

3, 4. His sleepless vigilance is added.

to be moved-(Compare Ps 38:16; 66:9).

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

8. thy going out, &c.-all thy ways (De 28:19; Ps 104:23).

evermore-includes a future state.