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Psalms 121
A song of ascents declaring Jehovah as the sole and tireless keeper of Israel. The psalmist looks toward the hills and locates help not in topography but in Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth — the covenant name anchoring every line. He neither slumbers nor sleeps; His shade covers the right hand, and neither the burning of day nor the shifting of night carries power to harm the one He guards. The preservation promised is total: soul, going out, coming in, from this moment forward into perpetuity. The covenant keeper does not drift.
1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
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.
6
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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.
