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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 121"
description: "PSALM 121   :-. God"
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PSALM 121

. God's guardian care of His people celebrated.

**1. I will lift up mine
eyes**—expresses desire (compare ), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a
question, is answered,

**2.** by avowing God to be the
helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (), to which,

**3, 4.** His sleepless vigilance is
added.
**to be moved**—(Compare
[Psalms 38:16](../../../kjv/psalms/38/16); [Psalms 66:9](../../../kjv/psalms/66/9)).

**5. upon thy right hand**—a
protector's place ([Psalms 109:31](../../../kjv/psalms/109/31);
[Psalms 110:5](../../../kjv/psalms/110/5)).

**6-8.** 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](../../../kjv/genesis/1/16)).

**8. thy going out,** c.—all thy
ways ([Deuteronomy 28:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/19) [Psalms 104:23](../../../kjv/psalms/104/23)).
**evermore**—includes a
future state.

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