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Psalm 121.
About this passage.
This song directs the traveler’s confidence toward the Lord’s watchful care. Its focus is who keeps God’s people, rather than a timetable or explanation of every event.
The chapter at a glance.
A traveler looks beyond the hills to the Creator for help. God is described as an unfailing keeper who watches over every part of the journey.
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Read the passage.
- 1A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
- 2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
- 3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
- 4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- 5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- 6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
- 7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
- 8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
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