Enthronement Psalms. Professor, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Psalm 121 is a treasure of promise for the suffering believer, whose help comes from the Lord Meat, when exposed to the moonbeams, becomes quickly tainted. TO THE MORNING AND EVENING OF LIFE. One thing about them is suggested by our textthey make us look up. But the phrase used rather implies that these will never cease. OUR IDEA OF BEING KEPT AND GOD'S IDEA MAY BE VERY DIFFERENT. And we need the assurance of God's defense even against open and well-known evils, because he only can know the particular peril which lies in their relativity to us at any given time. Moses was sent to feel the inspirations of Sinai. Psalm 121:38 continues the theme of God's protection of His people. II. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. It is in the form of a dialogue.. Ver. Remain dependent on him. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. Psalm 121:7 (CSB) Psalm 130 is the 130th psalm of the Book of Psalms, one of the Penitential psalms. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He *guards Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Or, we must lift up our eyes above the hills; we must look to God who makes all earthly things to us what they are. II. I. Certainties; duties, difficulties, vexations, trials, temptations, opportunities. v3 He will not let about it; in all ways, works, and conversation; in journeying and Psalms 121:8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. God knows, and can help him to defend himself from the peril. In quite an instinctive way men in all ages and in every land have inclined to build their altars on high hills, as if thus they did get nearer God. Which made heaven and earth; i.e. III. Perhaps it is best regarded as a psalm of the Exile. called also Gradual Psalm, Pilgrim Psalm, Psalm of Ascents. What does it mean that God has removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12)? Warren Wiersbe describes the Valley of Baca as any difficult and painful place in life, where everything seems hopeless and you feel helpless, like the pit of despair. Psalm 121:7 (TMB) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. Psalm 121:7 (NRSA) There are luxuries, listlessnesses, selfishnesses, of our very resting-times; rod we need God for our coming in lest the self or self-indulgence should gain undue power over us.R.T. God agreed to *protect his To understand these figures, it is necessary to keep in mind, not only what the sun and moon actually are in Eastern countries, but also the sentiments which have gathered about them in those lands. 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). 2 My help cometh from the LORD : who hath made heaven and earth. The Lord After a man has sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no repentance for him. God keeps His people at all times and in all perils. in "Your Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.". Hence such difference of rendering is often misleading, and rather a hiding than a setting forth of the Scripture's true meaning. THE "COMING IN" OF LIFE MAY INDICATE ITS PASSIVITIES AND QUIET RELATION-strips. Checking. He will preserve us, ourselves; not only our home, our fortune, our credit, our reputation, but ourselves: "He shall preserve thy soul." What is the context of Psalms 121:7? v4 It is certain that Psalm 121:7 (GNT) 2. says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems Hush the life-fever! (Psalms 121:2.) Wow! AS APPLYING TO THE WHOLE OF OUR ACTIVE LIFE. The moon may very well be taken as the type of the secret, subtle, insidious perils of the godly life; and these are chiefly to be dreaded. to be moved--(Compare Psalms 38:16 , 66:9 ). Hence blessed are they who are in God's holy keeping in all the goings out and comings in of daily life! 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. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. In the cloudless skies of the East, where the moon shines with such exceeding clearness, its effects upon the human frame have been found most injurious. Watch the video above and talk about it with a group or mentor. He then proceeds to cheer himself with assurances of God's sleepless care and protection. "Our help cometh from the Lord."S.C. Our English dislike of using the same word repeatedly accounts for this change, and causes the loss of impressiveness which the repeated reverberations of the one emphatic word "keep" were intended to produce. "From whence shall my help come?" To succeed in earthly things we must engage the whole heart and powers in them. THE MOON IS THE TYPE OF THE SECRET PERILS OF THE GODLY LIFE. The Lord will protect you from all danger; he will keep you safe. and goes, things prosper with him, and with those that are in Context Summary. Just because you follow God, it doesnt mean that you will not face tough times in life. The story of Psalm 121 is in the note on Psalm 120. But we can see him only from the heights of the soul. The Lord shall prevent the evil thou fearest, and sanctify, remove, or lighten the evil thou feelest. Is it Jesus or Yeshua? the *LORD. It is not that he expects help from the mountainshis hope is fixed on him who made the mountains. made the *heaven (the sky and the stars) and the earth. Yahwehs guardianship means that he ensures our perseverance. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. What does the psalmist mean when he says, I lift my eyes to the hills (Psalm 121:1). I. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. 5. upon thy right hand--a protector's place ( Psalms 109:31 , 110:5 ). The sure confidence we have today that we will remain with God tomorrow is God himself. Thank You Father God that You are my ever-present help in troubled times and that by the blood of Christ I now have access to Your throne of grace, for mercy - to find help in time on need, in Jesus name I pray, AMEN. Read it This page was last modified on September 15, 2017, at 5:16 AM. My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.". Dont forget him. Little slips into inexactness or untruthfulness. We naturally and rightly look to our kindred and to our friends for sympathy and succor. He will keep thee in life and death; going out to thy labour in the morning of thy days, and coming home to thy rest when the evening of old age calls thee in. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. The Lord himself shall see to if, whether during the heat of the day or the chill of the night, it matters not. He is a wakeful, watchful Keeper; he is never weary; he not only does not sleep, but he does not so much as slumber. These describe Gods sovereign rule. 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It The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; or, "keep thee." THE EVER-WATCHFUL WATCHMAN UNDERSTANDS. the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. I. God's people are, after all, the happiest people under the sun. But the encouraging this is that God is here to help you through your challenges. Words in boxes are from the Bible. upon princes and great men? All rights reserved. Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul. Shall I depend upon the strength of the hills? Uncertainties; possibly some very great joy, or some overwhelming sorrow, or some very sore perplexity, or even the last experience of death. The spiritually awakened man sees evil as God sees it; and, therefore, when he prays to be kept from all evil, he means kept from himselffrom the evil that is in him. The daily renewed gift of life carries with it the gift of all the life will need day by day. The LORD will keep you from all evil. Are we so kept as this psalm promisesnot the mere godless crowd, but the company of God's faithful ones: does the Lord keep them, as is here said, 'from all evil'?" Psalm 121:7 (RSVA) We can count on the constancy of his care. Let us be found in our work, assured that the blessings promised in this psalm are ours. "The Lord shall preserve thy going out." God has made our journeyings safe by means of what we call the inventions of science and the resources of civilization. It is only as man's spiritual nature is quickened that moral evil, as distinct from moral calamity, is apprehended. This is the same This is more necessary in a watchman than keeping awake; he must be quick to observe, attentive, noticing everything. Disaster, disease, disappointment, defeat, occupy man's thoughts, and are, properly enough, from his point of view, classed as evils. He will attend us to the close of life (Psalms 121:8). Business man is world-absorbed. This page last updated: December 13, 2022. (here, God and his people). What, then, would be any man's hope of preserving moral health and safety, if we might not cherish the assurance of the psalmist, that God understands all secret perils that gather about us, and will not let the moon smite us by night? Mr. Martin says, "Of the effects of the moon on animal life very many instances could be cited. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy soul. protects you ~ stops people hurting or killing you . 8 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore (Psalm 121:7-8). In transacting all the business of life, in going in and out Illustrate by the fact that the sunstroke is only an occasional peril. Psalm 121:7 (TMBA) No; my confidence is in God only. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. The psalmist is not promising the absence of pain or even failure. He is always there to give Hashem shall preserve thee from kol rah; He shall preserve thy nefesh. There was no help in the Psalm 121 The God Who Keeps and Helps. The official youth channel for pursueGOD.org. Recognizes the relation of what he sees to his people. It has, indeed, no moral quality that he can recognize. But God does not call calamity evil. In this "God's thoughts are not as our thoughts." (He will do this) now and always. But we need not miss the important fact that God's soul-keeping runs along with, and works through, our own soul-keeping. Psalm 121:7 (NIRV) What promise! Psalm 121:7, KJV: The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. I. WORLD-DRAWN, WE LOOK DOWN, AND SO ARE WEAK. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. Psalm 121:7 (KJVA) There God had "promised his blessing, even life forevermore" (Psalms 133:3). For Israel was a people that had known what it was to go out to drear and dreadful exile, and that more than once. For to men in this world God's voice is ever calling. But it is true also in the moral sphere, it is the calamity side of evil which absorbs man's attention. GOD-DRAWN, WE LOOK UP, AND SO GROW STRONG. Our Lord sought seclusion among the hills of Eastern Galilee, and entered into the Divine glory on a spur of Hermon. THE GENERAL RULE OF GOD'S PROVIDENTIAL CARE IS AS HERE SET FORTH. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. It is the steadfast love of the Lord The voice calls continually, "Lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh!". All sins shall be forgiven, except the sin against the Holy Ghost; for Jesus will save all except the sons of perdition. What does Psalms 121:7-8 mean? The LORD will keep you from all evil. And their experience reminds us of some important truths. It can be through Scripture, sermons, articles, podcasts, or any other means He chooses. You would need someone to *protect you. v4 It is certain that he will not sleep. I will lift up mine eyes--expresses desire (compare Psalms 25:1 ), mingled with expectation. connection with him: such an one was Jacob in the house of Laban, And he wants to help you through lifes most difficult circumstances. If God keeps us in being, and gives us new days, then we may confidently hold him to his promise, "As thy day so shall thy strength be." It is all about the LORD. 2023 Caniry - All Rights Reserved Yet at the best no absolute security can be placed in any human watchman. travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only The King James Bible (1611) and Strong's Concordance (1890) with Hebrew and Greek dictionaries are sourced from the BibleForgeDB database (https://github.com/bibleforge) within the BibleForge project (http://bibleforge.com). Salem Media Group. The LORD will protect you from all evil; God will protect your very life. 2. s guardianship also means he is constantly watching over our souls (verses 3b4). It was the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth and not the hills to whom they looked for help. The writer is oppressed with the burdens and sorrows of exile; he remembers Zion, and he sings his soul to quietness and peace by looking away from present cares to the high hills of God, and cheers his drooping spirit by remembering how, amid all the earth-changes, the everlasting hills abide. Psalm 121:7 (JUB) He who "made heaven and earth" (Psalms 121:2) can do anything, everything, for us. Psalms 121:8. More insights from your Bible study - Get Started with Logos Bible Software for Free! The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. 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. But the man does not know the peril of his physical condition. We may not think that God estimates evil precisely as we do. Those who trust and worship God may expect to pass through the valley of weeping. We ask the question: who is 'the LORD'? Since the colonial era, abolitionist writers turned to Psalm 121 as proof of Gods protection for enslaved people. nor the moon by night--poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides ( Genesis 1:16 ). 5 The Lord watches over you. II. His concern for the material life does but illustrate his care for the spiritual life ("This is the will of God, even our sanctification"). Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 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? They appeal to both poetic and religious feeling. What are we to say? He guards your life. From whence cometh my help. The Psalms offer an important message to those who long for sleep in the midst of lifes anxious times. "thy defense." Evil takes many forms; it comes to us in every guise. By his wise upholdings: "Will not suffer thy foot to be moved." And in the New Jerusalem, one of its sweetest promises was that its people should "go no more out forever." "me", "my" or "I". And this assurance carried with it the confidence that God's defense and blessing were still upon the restored nation. The world-thoughts abide with us, and even when the sabbath day brings God and heaven near, we find it very hard to get our eyes lifted up. Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse. "All evil." Read full chapter. We must come within the circle of the covenanted people of God ere we can lay claim to the fulfillment of a psalm like this. From the times of David's persecution, he fled to the mountain country of Judaea and the south; but God preserved him, not the hills. My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Looking up, you feel how pure God's snow is, and think how much is in the promise, "They shall walk with me in white.". What does this verse really mean? THE GREATNESS OF OUR NEED. His gracious power will overshadow us at every step we take. Psalm 121:7 (NCV) We must see all our help in God; from him we must expect it, in his own way and time. covenant ~ two people have agreed what each should do The psalmist addresses himself with consolatory assurances. Taking the second idea, we come upon God's continued interest in, and care for, the new life he has quickened in our souls. Elijah was calmed, and made himself again, by the soothing influences of Horeb, the mount of God. The hurry and bustle of thousands who are hasting to be rich. It is constantly complained of that where, in the original Scriptures, the sacred writers employ only one word, our translators have put for that one word, two, three, four, five, or even several more different English words, thus conveying to our minds several ideas, where it was the intention of the Scriptures to convey only one. They knew their strength and their help. He will guard us from all forms of evil. He will watch over your life. Psalm 121:7 (ASV) The LORD will preserve thee from all evil: he will preserve thy soul. So, verse 1 begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. What does the Bible say about God never sleeping? And so in life there are various temptations and dangers, which we all know about, which every man knows may come into his personal experience, and concerning which we all, in various ways and degrees, take precautions. He had kept it; they might be sure that he would keep it. We cannot think o, any place, however remote, or obscure, or humble, where he will not be with his defending, delivering hand. Popularity relative to other verses in Psalm chapter 121 using average monthly Google searches. THE MOUNTAINS CAN DIRECT US WHERE TO FIND HELP AND SAFETY. It is a revelation to us to discover that God's supreme interest is not in eyelets, as ours is. word list at the end explains all the words that have a *star by them. He is the one that *guards your life. How business life tends to absorb all time, all thought, all energy, so that scarce any are left for God! Psalms 121:7. He alone has both the power and the will to assist me. Amazing Promises. We need to be kept of God. The precise associations of the psalm cannot be fixed with any certainty. 5. Were on a mission to change that. Not the universal, but the general rule. As they travelled along, they set their faces towards the Jerusalem hills, and as they advanced, they sang together the many Songs of Ascent: "I lift my eyes toward the mountains. He will keep your soul. II. Taking the first idea, it may be shown that God's care of our natural life involves and includes all due provision for the thousandfold needs of that life. He would not only pay the price for the sins of Israel, but for the sin of the whole world. guards you ~ stops people hurting or killing you . The Israelites faced tremendous dangers as they scaled the hills around Jerusalem to come to religious festivals. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.. But to pass on to what is of more importance, the truth itself of God's sure keeping, let us. The Lord will keep us from all harm! Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.. If the soul be kept, all is kept. Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths. Man is profoundly interested in what happens, and is wont to stop there, and miss the meaning of what happens. The phrase is an equivalent of "The Lord shall preserve thee in all thy ways" (Psalms 91:11). Psalm 121:7 (NLT) II. The sun shall not smite by day, nor the moon by night; "the Lord will preserve us from all evil" (Psalms 121:6, Psalms 121:7). My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. (Psalms 121:1-8) The Guardian of Gods People (Psalms 121:1-8) God the Help of Those Who Seek Him (Psalms 121:1-8) The Whereas verse 3 suggests your Guardian will not slumber now, verse 4 stresses Israels Guardian will never slumber nor sleep. What mercy! Whether your sleepless nights are filled with tears and prayers, diaper changing, or paper writing, God is with you with all the energy and grace you need.
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