Psalms 121 The Lord Is Your Keeper

God's guardian care of his people celebrated

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I will lift up mine eyes — expresses desire (compare Ps 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,

2

by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Ps 115:15), to which,

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His sleepless vigilance is added. to be moved — (Compare Ps 38:16; 66:9).

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upon thy right hand — a protector's place (Ps 109:31; 110:5).

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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).

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thy going out, &c. — all thy ways (De 28:19; Ps 104:23). evermore — includes a future state.