Bible Commentaries
JFB Critical & Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Psalms 121
Psalm 121:1-8. God‘s guardian care of His people celebrated.
I will lift up mine eyes — expresses desire (compare Psalm 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,
by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Psalm 115:15), to which,
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 (Genesis 1:16).
thy going out, etc. — all thy ways (Deuteronomy 28:19; Psalm 104:23).
evermore — includes a future state.
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