Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 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, 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,
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). Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
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).
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). The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
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. |
