World English Bible

Psalm 121

Psalm 121 is one of the Songs of Ascents, a group associated with journeying toward Jerusalem. The speaker looks toward the hills and identifies the maker of heaven and earth as the true source of help. The repeated language of keeping and watching emphasizes God's attentive care through ordinary movement, danger, day, and night. Its compact structure makes it especially useful for slow and repeated reading.

1<<A Song of Ascents.>> I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

2My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

4Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

5Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

6The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

7Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

8Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore.

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