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**Title. A Song.** Hebrew. *shir* . See App-65 .
**of degrees** = for, or relating to the degrees. Only here thus. Hebrew. *lamma'aloth.* See note on Title of 120.
**hills** = mountains. Add a full stop.
**From whence, &c?** Punctuate this line as a question. Compare [Jeremiah 3:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/3/23) .
**cometh** = is to come.

**My help.** Figure of speech, *Anadiplosis* , repeated from end of [Psalms 121:1](../../../kjv/psalms/121/1) .
**the LORD** = *Jehovah* ( App-4 .), not the hills.
**Which made heaven and earth.** The reference is to the burden of Hezekiah's prayer ([2 Kings 19:15](../../../kjv/2-kings/19/15) ; [Isaiah 37:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/37/16) ). Idols were only the work of men's hands ( 2Ki 19:18 ; [2 Chronicles 32:19](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/32/19) ; [Isaiah 37:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/37/19) ). Rab-shakeh had reproached "the living God". See further references to this in [Psalms 124:8](../../../kjv/psalms/124/8) ; [Psalms 134:3](../../../kjv/psalms/134/3) ; and App-67

**not** = May He not. Hebrew 'al (like Greek. *me)* . (Subjective, and conditional).
**keepeth . . . ([Psalms 121:4](../../../kjv/psalms/121/4)** **) keepeth . . . ([Psalms 121:5](../../../kjv/psalms/121/5)** **) keeper.** Note the Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ). Hebrew. *shomreka* . . . *shomer . . . shomreka.* Repeated in verses: [Psalms 121:7-8](../../../kjv/psalms/121/7-8) .

**neither.** Hebrew. *l'o* (like Greek. *ou)* . He will not. Absolute.

**shall preserve thee.** The repeated promise of Jehovah by Isaiah ([2 Kings 19:20-34](../../../kjv/2-kings/19/20-34) .[Isaiah 37:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/37/6) , [Isaiah 37:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/37/7) , [Isaiah 37:22-25](../../../kjv/isaiah/37/22-25)

**thy going out, &c.** Idiom for life in general. The promise was fulfilled in [2 Chronicles 32:22](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/32/22) .

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