Psalms · 8 verses
Psalms 121
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The moon is given a night shift: it, like the sun, might strike a traveller, and the LORD promises that neither shall do so.
The hills and their answervv. 1–2
The speaker lifts his eyes to the hills and asks where help comes from. The answer does not linger among the hills: help comes from the LORD, Maker of heaven and earth.
The sleepless keepervv. 3–8
The LORD keeps watch with an almost comically comprehensive vigilance: no slipping foot, no sleeping Protector, no sun by day and no moon by night. The promise widens from protection against those two celestial nuisances to guarding from all evil, preserving the soul, and watching every coming and going, now and forevermore.
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Ps 121:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
Ps 121:2My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
Ps 121:4Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Ps 121:5The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
Ps 121:6The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
Ps 121:7The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
Ps 121:8The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 67 passages were voted onto 8 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 2Isaiah 41:13For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.
- 1Psalms 120:1A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
- 2Psalms 124:8Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- 2Hebrews 13:6So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
- 1Psalms 123:1A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
- 2Isaiah 40:28–29Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
- 72 Timothy 4:18And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- 3Proverbs 3:26for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- 8Deuteronomy 28:6You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- 2Psalms 146:5–6Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
- 7Psalms 91:9–12Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—
- 2Psalms 46:1For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
- 1Jeremiah 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
- 1Isaiah 2:3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- 2Psalms 115:15May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- 3Proverbs 3:23Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
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