Shall I depend upon the strength of the hills? the *LORD. It is the inward happiness and peace and joy which these things impart which gives them their value. After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. PSALM 121:7. He is supremely concerned about us. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy soul. Quotes available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Man is profoundly interested in what happens, and is wont to stop there, and miss the meaning of what happens. Genesis He had kept it; they might be sure that he would keep it. It is a time congregations grant clergy as a period of rest and reflection to take leave of ones responsibilities. hills (verse 1). (Psalms 121:1-8) The Guardian of Gods People (Psalms 121:1-8) God the Help of Those Who Seek Him (Psalms 121:1-8) The This psalm gives us a picture of a Christian pilgrim with a deep longing for God finding the greatest blessedness in his journey being the worship of the Lord. Looking up, you feel how pure God's snow is, and think how much is in the promise, "They shall walk with me in white.". He not only sees things, but sees the significance of things. In this "God's thoughts are not as our thoughts." All rights reserved. dangerous places. "This God is our God forever and ever, he will be our guide even unto death" (Psalms 48:14). What is the context of Psalms 121:7? Read full chapter. The assurance rises from the particular to the general. covenant ~ two people have agreed what each should do The psalmist addresses himself with consolatory assurances. There are enervating influences, suggestive examples. We must look beyond our circumstances, beyond the immediate concerns, beyond the enemies that surround us. OUR IDEA OF BEING KEPT AND GOD'S IDEA MAY BE VERY DIFFERENT. This last has sometimes been doubted, but the observation of modern travelers seems to show that bad effects actually fellow on sleeping in the moonlight in hot countries. Not for one small moment will he forget us; day and night we shall be the objects of his watchful love. What does Psalms 121 mean? It is constantly complained of that where, in the original Scriptures, the sacred writers employ only one word, our translators have put for that one word, two, three, four, five, or even several more different English words, thus conveying to our minds several ideas, where it was the intention of the Scriptures to convey only one. Variations of the Hebrew root word for "keep" appear in verses 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8. "Not let your foot slip" (verse 3) means "not let you Enthronement Psalms. The Hebrew of verse 4 suggests a development from what precedes. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. Also, he would *protect Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. 1. The LORD will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. The Lord If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. 2. The one that *guards Israel will never sleep. Under this shade they may sit with delight and assurance. Psalms 121:7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; or, "keep thee." It is not that he expects help from the mountainshis hope is fixed on him who made the mountains. We do not see that the sense is obscured in this instance, but we think the emphasis and force are lessened. Our real self is not harmed, the Lord is our Keeper, as he said. Salem Media Group. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. v8 The *LORD *guards He will preserve the soul, that it be not defiled by sin, and disturbed by affliction; he will preserve it from perishing eternally. The sun shall not smite by day, nor the moon by night; "the Lord will preserve us from all evil" (Psalms 121:6, Psalms 121:7). 3. Where will my help come from? He is able and willing to make "all grace abound" unto "all-sufficiency." The one prominent word in the psalm is "keep:" the whole psalm is about the Lord God's sure keeping of his people, and that this might be impressed on the mind, the writer six times over in the last five verses of the psalm repeats this word "keep." Psalm 121:7 (NRS) All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. This psalm teaches us to comfort ourselves in the Lord, when difficulties and dangers are greatest. he will not sleep. (He will do this) now and always. First, as a continuation of Gods grace in bringing the people back from captivity. good or prosperous foot. v4 It is certain that he will not sleep. This is what the writer of this precious psalm looks for from God (see the first two verses), and this is what the psalm promises, and that with the utmost particularity. Men know this, and are duly warned to take all precautions. Much of self, of man, and of things. Proud member upon princes and great men? And how we need to be kept amid our daily work and business! Psalms 121:7 At first glance, Psalm 121:7 offers tremendous assurance. 5. After personally celebrating Yahwehs guardianship in verses 12, the Further, we see only the surface of things; God looks at the reality. Look up; your brow will soon lose those wreathings of anxiety and care. The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). Do not put your hope today in yourself, for were it not for God, you would surely slip. And this assurance carried with it the confidence that God's defense and blessing were still upon the restored nation. He "will not slumber," etc. All rights reserved. Psalm 121:7 (GNTA) He will not suffer thy So, we probably did not misunderstand those verses. We have been taught to realize that God is Spirit, and dwells near us, as well as in the far-off mountains and in distant worlds. What a glorious promise. Yahweh will keep you from all evil. Proud member Beyond them he must look. What does it mean that God has removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12)? says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems The LORD will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; Psalm 121:7 (NKJV) Psalm 121:7 (CJB) Psalm 121 was sung by the ancient Israelites as they made the long journey to Jerusalem. The one peril of the night-watchman is that he might be overcome with sleep. Praise to God for His gracious acts. If the soul be kept, all is kept. The LORD keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever. Absolute security of defense lies in God, and we may fully trust in him. His salvation is not so limited, lie saves the whole man, and bears as real a relation to man's temporal as to his spiritual needs. And then there are brought forward the long array of facts which seem to make against the truth of this word. For to men in this world God's voice is ever calling. If he were but free from the answering of his moral evil, nothing that could happen would be a real calamity.R.T. Hence God may preserve a man's soul when he lets his outward affairs go all to ruin; for the sake of his soul this may be needed. Psalms 120 Psalms 122 Old Testament Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles Psalm 121:7 (MSG) God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. This is the second of the series of psalms which are titled A Song of Ascents. Arama interprets it of a man's going out into the The psalmist is not promising the absence of pain or even failure. The LORD will guard you from all evil, preserving your life. This psalm teaches us to comfort ourselves in the Lord, when difficulties and dangers are greatest. There shall not be even a slip of the foot, a thing so common in mountainous lands, and often so perilous, and the keeping shall be night and day alike, and close at hand (Psalms 121:5). But he is promising that, amidst seas of adversity, the elect will remain upheld, not because of their own doing, but because of the preserving hand of God. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. It is his *covenant name. travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only But if his soul has been kept, has not God been true to his word? "*Protect Professor, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Psalm 121 is a treasure of promise for the suffering believer, whose help comes from the Lord The LORD will keep you from all evil. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; he will keep thy soul. THE CREATOR WOULD NOT ONLY HAVE THE POWER, BUT THE DESIRE, THE DISPOSITION, TO HELP THE CHILD OF HIS LOVE. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. Psalm 121 The God Who Keeps and Helps. What are we to say? The same verb is used throughout. Looking up, listen; you may hear the voices of the hills saying, "Be still! Why are there different names for Jesus? ADONAI will guard you against all harm; he will guard your life. The Targum is. Clarke's Commentary. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.. Certainties; duties, difficulties, vexations, trials, temptations, opportunities. God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. The Lord keep thee from all evil; the Lord keep thy soul. All sins shall be forgiven, except the sin against the Holy Ghost; for Jesus will save all except the sons of perdition. THE PROMISE IS NOT FOR EVERY COMMUNITY, BUT FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD. The daily renewed gift of life carries with it the gift of all the life will need day by day. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Spirit, who is their Preserver and Comforter, shall abide with them for ever. Warren Wiersbe describes the Valley of Baca as any difficult and painful place in life, where everything seems hopeless and you feel helpless, like the pit of despair. Whereas verse 3 suggests your Guardian will not slumber now, verse 4 stresses Israels Guardian will never slumber nor sleep. For them. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. A thousand things in common life, that seem to have no more Power of mischief in them than have the moonbeams. God helps every Christian in tough times. Would we but stop and hush awhile, we might hear it always near us, saying, "Look up! Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.. Tehillim 121:7 (OJB) Psalm 121:7-8 The Lord will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. We can count on the constancy of his care. : any one of 15 psalms in the series Ps 120 to 134 sung by Hebrew pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem or possibly while ascending Mount Zion or the steps of the Temple. you and be the one that *guards you. The influence of the world begets a downward look, a sort of set of the eyes and heart downwards. This comes out plainly in Perowne's rendering, "Whence should my help come? Now the verses in Psalms are pretty straightforward, verse 4 says, God will neither slumber nor sleep. We are in the worldin a thousand subtle ways we are kin with the world, subject to its influences, caught by its whirl of excitement, absorbed by its pressing claims, and easily we become of the world as well as in it. The Lord's promise to be with us forever keeps us from covetousness and fear (Hebrews 13:56). What does Psalm chapter 121 mean? evermore--includes a future state. GOD SEES WHAT MAN MISSES. Psalm 121:7 (HNV) This page was last modified on September 15, 2017, at 5:16 AM. Is it Jesus or Yeshua? He will watch over your life. God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. "Man goeth forth to his work and to his labor until the evening;" then he cometh in for rest. The preservation of the greater includes that of the less, so far as it is essential to the main design; the kernel shall be preserved, and in order thereto the shell shall be preserved also. - We must not rely upon men and means, instruments and second causes. Sorrow has its snares, and so has joy. This is true in the physical sphere. Look up!" The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. (verse 2). This journey was dangerous, and we see that reflected in the opening words of the psalm. "me", "my" or "I". Psalm 121 is categorized as one of the Songs of Ascent sung by pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem. 1. v1 When I look up to the hills I find no help there. But: 1. Whether your sleepless nights are filled with tears and prayers, diaper changing, or paper writing, God is with you with all the energy and grace you need. v5 The *LORD is the WE MUST LIFT OURSELVES UP IN THE WHOLE POWER OF OUR BEING TO REALIZE GOD'S NEARNESS TO HELP US. The LORD will protect you from all evil; God will protect your very life. Instead, there was danger! The Lord will keep us from all harm! My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Look up, and you shall prove how God "wipes away all tears from our eyes."R.T. II. THE "GOING OUT" OF LIFE MAY INDICATE ITS ACTIVITIES AND ENTERPRISES. Even in the sanctuary they drop on bills and stock and trade. AS APPLYING TO THE WHOLE OF OUR ACTIVE LIFE. He is the one that *guards your life. Follow either of the two large buttons below to see these verses in their broader context of the King James Bible or a Bible concordance. God's guardian care of His people celebrated. called also Gradual Psalm, Pilgrim Psalm, Psalm of Ascents. people if they obeyed him. 1. s guardianship also means he is constantly watching over our souls (verses 3b4). heaven ~ here it means "the sky and all the We naturally and rightly look to our kindred and to our friends for sympathy and succor. Psalm 121:7 (RHE) Which Is More Stable Thiophene Or Pyridine? v2 My help comes from the *LORD. The precise associations of the psalm cannot be fixed with any certainty. And we need the assurance of God's defense even against open and well-known evils, because he only can know the particular peril which lies in their relativity to us at any given time. THE MOUNTAINS CANNOT GIVE US HELP AND SAFETY. you help. 2 My help cometh from the LORD : who hath made heaven and earth. "Thy shade" means "thy protection." 30:30); and such a foot Joseph had wherever he went, ( THE GREATNESS OF OUR NEED. That is, when a theme or message jumps out at you repeatedly. I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? Disaster, disease, disappointment, defeat, occupy man's thoughts, and are, properly enough, from his point of view, classed as evils. Verse 2 begins with the second letter and so on. Keeping thee from whatever form of temptation and moral evil may come through the putting forth of human energy in the daily duties of life. Metrically, the psalm falls into four stanzas of four lines each. 6. The sure confidence we have today that we will remain with God tomorrow is God himself. Old Testament. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Evil takes many forms; it comes to us in every guise. Isaiah 27:3). Jesus said, "I am always with you" (Matthew 28:20). IV. God watches over your life from Hashem shall preserve thee from kol rah; He shall preserve thy nefesh. Psalm 121:7, KJV: The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The same verb is used throughout. Our English dislike of using the same word repeatedly accounts for this change, and causes the loss of impressiveness which the repeated reverberations of the one emphatic word "keep" were intended to produce. (Psalms 121:3, Psalms 121:4). The sun strikes openly, and is especially perilous when it strikes on the lower part of the back of the head. TO THE MORNING AND EVENING OF LIFE. He will keep your soul. A man may be overpowered with sleep, and be physically unable to resist its advances. As they ascended the hilly slopes of Jerusalem, their faces were steadfastly set towards the place that represented the Presence of the Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, in the most holy place v3 He will not let your foot *slide. Man's enterprise may bring him into situations of bodily danger. I. But we can see him only from the heights of the soul. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. you when you go out. After Gods people returned from the Babylonian captivity they were suffering new afflictions. Five kinds of psalms include praise, wisdom, royal, thanksgiving, and lament. Makes what he sees the ground of his prompt and gracious action in their behalf. (The Lord shall keep thee safe from all evil; yea, the Lord shall keep thee safe.). Along with ensuring our perseverance (verse 3a), the Lord From the times of David's persecution, he fled to the mountain country of Judaea and the south; but God preserved him, not the hills. This publication is written in EasyEnglish Level A (1200 words). Psalm 121:7 (NIRV) The LORD will keep you from every kind of harm. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Bible Gateway Psalm 91 :: NIV. It is almighty wisdom that contrives, and almighty power that works the safety of those that put themselves under God's protection. To get what Psalm 121:7 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity. Yahweh is always awake, always aware, and always watching over his children. Psalm 121 is the second of the fifteen Psalms of ascent (Psalm 120 to Psalm 134). It shows us how God helps us when life gets hard. If, then, what we call disaster, and think to be so, be really amongst "all things which work together for [not merely precede, but produce the] man's good" as is so often the case (see 2 Corinthians 4:17), then is God's permission or sending of that disaster a falsifying of the promise of this psalm. Deu 28:6; 1 Samuel 29:6; THE EVER-WATCHFUL WATCHMAN UNDERSTANDS. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Now it is prosperity, and now adversity; it may be an intoxicating approval and adulation, or it may be a crushing depreciation and desertion; it may be a strong and sudden assault on our integrity, or it may be the more perilous approach of that which very gradually undermines or disintegrates. 6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. not in the *Hebrew Bible. It is only as man's spiritual nature is quickened that moral evil, as distinct from moral calamity, is apprehended. III. This same God is the One from Whom our help comes. They appeal to both poetic and religious feeling. Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. As asserted in Psalm 94:1618: Who stands up for me against evil doers? For those olden days were not days of settled law and order, in which life and property were secure, and evil-doers could scarce hope to escape punishment. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. They knew their strength and their help. The time is fast approaching when today's door of grace will be shut fast and God will take us to be with Himself before He begins to pour out His wrath on a Christ-rejecting, sinful and rebellious generation. Thanksgiving Psalms. They look for good. "But"so ask not a few"is all that true? Psalms 121. A Song of degrees. 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. We must see all our help in God; from him we must expect it, in his own way and time. The Being who framed man's wonderful nature would naturally provide for its great wantsthe wants he had himself created. Psalms 76-150, Holman Old Testament Commentary by Steven Lawson. Let us be found in our work, assured that the blessings promised in this psalm are ours. are called Namphanians, as Austin observes F25; who Protection was especially needed on the right hand, as the side which no shield guarded. Psalm 121:7, NASB: The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. 2. by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge ( Psalms 115:15 ), to which. 6-8. word list at the end explains all the words that have a *star by them. 8The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. The sun and the moon. But we need not miss the important fact that God's soul-keeping runs along with, and works through, our own soul-keeping. v6 The sun will not v2 My help comes from And I will execute great vengeance upon them, love the Lord your God with all your heart, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God, Properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc, Properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense), Properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental). And SAFETY defense lies in God, you would surely slip spiritual nature is quickened that evil. Its snares, and even for evermore the significance of things would a. '' appear in verses 3, 4, 5, 7, and we may fully trust in him to. 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