A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
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Psalms 121
My help comes from the LORD
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This chapter in brief
This 'Song of Ascents', traditionally sung by pilgrims going up to Jerusalem, begins, 'I will lift up my eyes to the hills.' The speaker answers that help comes from the LORD, maker of heaven and earth, who never sleeps. God is pictured as a keeper who guards a person's going out and coming in, now and forever.
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
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