A song of ascents
121:Title – See Ps 120. We might call this “the psalm of protection on the believer’s pilgrimage”.⚜
121
📚I will lift up my eyes to the hills from
where my help comes.
121:1 The pilgrim draws near to the hills of Judea, and Jerusalem, the city of God, and knows that the God Who dwells there in the temple will give him help.⚜
2 📚My help comes
from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
3 📚He will not allow your foot 📖
to be moved.
He who keeps you will not
slumber.
4 📚Behold, he who keeps
Israel will neither
slumber nor sleep 📖.
5 📚The LORD is the one
who keeps you.
The LORD is your shade
at your right hand.
6 📚The sun will not strike you
by day,
nor the moon by night.
121:6 This does not mean that believers may not feel the effects of sun or moon. It does not mean that difficulties, dangers, and death will not come to them as to everyone else. It means that believers will not be truly harmed by these things, that only what God permits for their good will come to them by day or by night (Rom 8:28). The outworking of all this is not something we can always detect and understand on this earth.⚜
7 📚The LORD will preserve you
from all evil;
he will preserve your soul.
8 📚The LORD will preserve
your going out
and your coming in from
this time on and forevermore.
121:7-8 2 Tim 4:18; 1 Pet 1:5; 2 Pet 2:9; Deut 28:6. Throughout life’s pilgrimage and to all eternity the person who trusts in the God of the Bible has perfect protection.⚜