II. The one that *guards Israel will never sleep. of The *LORD is near you to *protect you. The influence of the world begets a downward look, a sort of set of the eyes and heart downwards. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. He is supremely concerned about us. What does it mean that my help comes from the Lord (Psalm 121:2)? The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul ( Psalms 121:6-7 ). He will attend us to the close of life (Psalms 121:8). So let mountains stand for the supreme self-efforts a man may make in his times of distress; he must be brought to the assured conviction that they cannot bring him safety. II. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF HUMAN HELP. All sins shall be forgiven, except the sin against the Holy Ghost; for Jesus will save all except the sons of perdition. "Your Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.". What is the value of all God's providential mercies, his blessed keeping of us in health and external well-beingwhat is the value of it except for the effect it has upon our minds? Absolute security of defense lies in God, and we may fully trust in him. Let her influence over this earth be studied; it is more powerful than is generally known." Psalm 121:7, NLT: The LORD keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. heaven ~ here it means "the sky and all the If our life is thus within the constant Divine inspection, we may put away all fears, and simply "seek the kingdom of God, and his righteousness."R.T. Illustrate from the times of Lot. KING JAMES VERSION (KJV) TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT. Look up; your brow will soon lose those wreathings of anxiety and care. Read full chapter. 3. We must look beyond our circumstances, beyond the immediate concerns, beyond the enemies that surround us. V. GOD'S ETERNAL CARE IS TO KEEP THE SOUL FROM EVILFROM ALL REAL EVIL. Much of self, of man, and of things. Isaiah 27:3). He will preserve the soul, that it be not defiled by sin, and disturbed by affliction; he will preserve it from perishing eternally. From this time forth, and even forevermore; i.e. 6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. THE MOON IS THE TYPE OF THE SECRET PERILS OF THE GODLY LIFE. It sounds from the bright bands of the morning, from the high silver-tinted clouds of noonday, from the splendor and glory of the far-off sunset, from the lofty trees and the hill-tops, and the soaring birds of song, and the winds that roam free, and the "jewel-powdered skies" of night. If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. Such is a frequent meaning of the expression, "going out and coming in" (see Deuteronomy 28:6, Deuteronomy 28:19; Deuteronomy 23:20; Joshua 1:7; 1 Samuel 29:6). It is a revelation to us to discover that God's supreme interest is not in eyelets, as ours is. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. God has made our journeyings safe by means of what we call the inventions of science and the resources of civilization. Maybe its a friend or your mom. But whatever be its form, our God can "keep" us true, pure, holy. Now in the three former verses out of these five our version adheres to the word "keep," but in the last two it changes over to the less forcible word "preserve." Oar wants go so far, and strike so deep, that human sympathy does not avail; it falls short; we need more than it can bring. he so often does, then again we askHas not God been true to his word? TO THE MORNING AND EVENING OF LIFE. The grand, calm, strong, high thingsthey seem to be so near God; they seem to be so full of God; they bring us so near him, and fill us so full of him. He will take care that his people shall not fall. says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems "The Lord shall keep thy going out and thy coming in." fall". of 5. upon thy right hand--a protector's place ( Psalms 109:31 , 110:5 ). Yahweh will keep you from all evil. Arama interprets it of a man's going out into the and goes, things prosper with him, and with those that are in Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. The Being who framed man's wonderful nature would naturally provide for its great wantsthe wants he had himself created. The psalmist is not promising the absence of pain or even failure. Wow! The one that *guards Israel will never sleep. Psalm 122. Coming to the House of the LORD and the City of God. Psalm 122 carries the title A Song of Ascents. Of David. It is one of the four Songs of Ascents that is specifically attributed to King David. He wrote it both for what Jerusalem was in his day, and for what it would become under his son and their successors. Dishonesty found out is evil. Man's enterprise may bring him into situations of bodily danger. I have seen in Africa the newly littered young perish in a few hours, if exposed to the rays of the full moon. 2. by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge ( Psalms 115:15 ), to which. The LORD will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life. It has, indeed, no moral quality that he can recognize. The Arabs universally believe that the beams of the moon are noxious to the human body; and therefore they carefully cover over their heads when they sleep in the open air. The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. Would we but stop and hush awhile, we might hear it always near us, saying, "Look up! Whence should my help come?" What does the Bible say about God never sleeping? Dont forget him. But it is true also in the moral sphere, it is the calamity side of evil which absorbs man's attention. The LORD guards you from every evil. Psalm 121:7 (NLT) ADONAI will guard you against all harm; he will guard your life. Is it Jesus or Yeshua? If the soul be kept, all is kept. Believe it. And what do we see when we look down? And then there are brought forward the long array of facts which seem to make against the truth of this word. But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. THE preceding psalm is one of complaint; the present, one of comfort and consolation. Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. stars". Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul. Clarke's Commentary. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. "Man goeth forth to his work and to his labor until the evening;" then he cometh in for rest. Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. 2. 4. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. He will be present to defend us everywhere. We have been taught to realize that God is Spirit, and dwells near us, as well as in the far-off mountains and in distant worlds. v4 It is certain that 1. He declares the nature of Gods guarding role in verse 34: He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. This psalm is best taken as expressing the pious confidence of an individual believer, who addresses his inner self in words of comfort which are framed as if proceeding from another person. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.. And for ourselves the promise holds good. And such persons, in the Punic language, Five kinds of psalms include praise, wisdom, royal, thanksgiving, and lament. The Lord will protect you from all danger; he will keep you safe. There is a very simple message here: God never sleeps, slumbers or naps. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. It says that our help comes from God. you when you go out. He *guards Whereas verse 3 suggests your Guardian will not slumber now, verse 4 stresses Israels Guardian will never slumber nor sleep. II. The LORD will protect you from all evil; God will protect your very life. After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. The restored exiles may well gain and keep full confidence in God, seeing that he had kept their national life through such anxious and imperiling times. Psalm 121:7 (RSVA) A As they ascended the hilly slopes of Jerusalem, their faces were steadfastly set towards the place that represented the Presence of the Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, in the most holy place Look again at what we read in verse 2. Bible Gateway Psalm 91 :: NIV. Psalms 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. *LORD is a special name for God. Mountains have a peculiar power to solemnize and to impress us all; and precisely what they bring to us is that sense of God which assures of his love, and help, and lead.R.T. Context Summary. When the psalmist declared, therefore, He will not allow your foot to slip, he was most likely speaking of the perseverance of the saints. I. And the mountains still soothe and calm God's people. The LORD will keep you from every kind of harm. Psalm 121:7 (KJV) He dwelt in the mountain-group of Zion at Jerusalem, and in the other mountains of Israel. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Therefore we rest assured that the Lord will keep us flora all evil, he will keep our soul.S.C. As they ascended the hilly slopes of Jerusalem, their faces were steadfastly set towards the place that represented the Presence ofthe Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, in the most holy place in the Temple of God, and the Mercy Seat whereby their sins could be covered until the promised Messiah of Israel came as the perfect Sacrifice. "The darkness and the light are both alike to him."R.T. With him is all power. made the *heaven (the sky and the stars) and the earth. God agreed to *protect his Psalms 121:8. Rather, all four of its other occurrences employ it figuratively for someone who is (or anticipated being) overcome by divine judgment (Deuteronomy 32:35), personal sin or weakness (Psalm 38:16[17]), or enemy oppression (Psalm 66:9; 94:18). One thing about them is suggested by our textthey make us look up. From whence cometh my help. are called Namphanians, as Austin observes F25; who Psalm 121:7 (RSV) There was no help in the Old Testament. The psalmist addresses himself with consolatory assurances. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. We have sometimes to face the future, and then we confront: 1. 2. Not the universal, but the general rule. We come in tired. Sorrow has its snares, and so has joy. He must receive the Holy Ghost, have the heavens opened unto him, and know God, and then sin against him. This psalm teaches us to comfort ourselves in the Lord, when difficulties and dangers are greatest. There can come no difficulty, no entanglement, from which he cannot deliver us; there can come no sorrow in which he will not be able to support us. F26; and so one that, wherever he comes 2. I. Psalms 121:1-8 . Our real self is not harmed, the Lord is our Keeper, as he said. Not for one small moment will he forget us; day and night we shall be the objects of his watchful love. is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. Psalm 121:7 (DBY) 5The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. He made the *heaven and the earth. The goal is to recharge the spiritual batteries and accomplish something special that time would not allow during the daily routine of clergy. We may not think that God estimates evil precisely as we do. Moses was sent to feel the inspirations of Sinai. To get what Psalm 121:7 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for It is not that he expects help from the mountainshis hope is fixed on him who made the mountains. There are enervating influences, suggestive examples. For Israel was a people that had known what it was to go out to drear and dreadful exile, and that more than once. "All evil." It is almighty wisdom that contrives, and almighty power that works the safety of those that put themselves under God's protection. God guards you from every evil, he guards your very life. Yet even in respect of these we need the assurance of an outside and Divine protection. It (The Lord shall keep thee safe from all evil; yea, the Lord shall keep thee safe.). Their provision and protection came only from the Lord. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Psalms 121:3.The ministering priest answers him, "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved." He never sleeps, so he never stops The story of Psalm 121 is in the note on Psalm 120. He does not faint or grow weary (Isaiah 40:28). The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. So, verse 1 begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. They are but God's instruments for our good. (Psalms 121:2.) But the very force he puts into life may unduly magnify self; and it is much more to say that God will keep him from ensnaring self. Disease, accident, death, the overwhelming by earthquakes, lightning, flood, storm; by the ferocity or the folly of men, and by any of the ten thousand ills which flesh is heir to. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. Psalm 121:7 (NIRV) Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.. He is always near his people for their protection and refreshment. We ask the question: who is 'the LORD'? Clearly it is but a poetical way of saying, that the defense and guidance and benediction of Jehovah shall rest on the godly man in all the actions and relations of his everyday life. This is what the writer of this precious psalm looks for from God (see the first two verses), and this is what the psalm promises, and that with the utmost particularity. he will not sleep. Words in brackets, ( ), are A - We must not rely upon men and means, instruments and second causes. Psalm 121:7 (NRS) The sun strikes openly, and is especially perilous when it strikes on the lower part of the back of the head. John Calvin summarizes the message of Psalm 85 as follows. All kinds of evil. Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul. Psalm 121 The God Who Keeps and Helps. (See verses 2 - 7.) God knows, and can help him to defend himself from the peril. THE PROMISE MAY BE TRUE TO THE HEART WHEN ITS FULFILLMENT IS NOT APPARENT TO THE EYE. The psalmist is, as it were, holding a colloquy with himself. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. He will preserve us, ourselves; not only our home, our fortune, our credit, our reputation, but ourselves: "He shall preserve thy soul." Latin writers call the right side "latus aperture.". Men know this, and are duly warned to take all precautions. 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