“ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. ”
I will lift up mine eyes - Margin, “Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? Whence should my help come?” The expression would properly denote a condition where there was danger; when no help or a...
CXXI. Yahweh's Care for His People. Psalms 121:8 . going out i.e. to the feast at Zion, and coming in to thy home far away, perhaps in heathen lands.
Title.. 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. full stop. Fro...
l I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. The inspired writer, whoever he was, seems, in the opening of the Psalm, to speak in the person of an unbelieving man. As God prevents his believin...
DISCOURSE: 714 SECURITY OF THOSE WHO TRUST IN GOD Psalms 121:1-8 . I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth....
A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. Unto the hills - Jerusalem was built upon a mountain; and Judea was a mountainous country; and the Jews, in the...
The great safety of the godly, who put their trust in God's protection. A Song of Degrees. Title. המעלות שׁיו Shiir hammangaloth. ] This psalm is thought by some to have been written by Davi...
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. The pilgrims' even-song as they caught the first sight of the hills ( Psalms 121:1 ) round Jerusalem. In Psalms 122:1-9 t...
Hills] RV 'mountains.' The mountains suggest strength, and the Psalmist asks a question, 'Whence shall my help come?' The answer is given in Psalms 121:2 : 'from Him who made the mountains and...
Whence. — Our version is certainly incorrect in following the LXX. and Vulg. in making whence a relative. The Hebrew word is always interrogative; even in Joshua 2:4 it is indirectly interrogat...
Psalms 121:1-8 How many timid, anxious hearts has this sweet outpouring of quiet trust braced and lifted to its own serene height of conscious safety! This psalmist is so absorbed in the thought o...
Where to Find Help Psalms 120:1-7 ; Psalms 121:1-8 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of the...
This song, so full of beauty, marks another stage in the approach of the worshiper in that it sets forth his assurance of the present help of Jehovah. The singer is still far from the appointed place...
CONTENTS This is a very beautiful Psalm, if read first with reference to Jesus, and then as suited to his people in him. Its general contents are, the full confidence there is in God's Christ, at al...
HELP FROM THE HILLS ‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.’ Psalms 121:1 In these first words of one of the greatest Psalms of David, the nobleness which we imme...
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills ,.... Not to the hills and mountains in Judea, looking about to see if the inhabitants of them, or any bodies of men, appeared upon them to his help in distre...
Psalms 121:1 «A Song of degrees. » I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. A Song of degrees ] On, of ascensions, in singing whereof there should be ascensions in ou...
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills To Zion and Moriah, called the holy mountains, Psalms 87:1 , the hills on which the tabernacle or temple stood, where were the ark of the covenant, the orac...
Confidence in God. A song of degrees. 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My...
PSALM 121 THE ARGUMENT The matter of this Psalm sufficiently showeth that the psalmist was conflicting with great difficulties and oppositions, and looking. hither and thither for help, as men in s...
INTRODUCTION This “Song of the Ascents”—a title slightly varying from that of each of the other Gradual Psalms—is as suitable as any for the Israelite’s use when not leaving his home for the earthly...
A Song of degrees Literally, "of ascents." Perhaps chanted by the people as they went up to Jerusalem to the feasts. See, for example ( Psalms 112:1 ); ( Psalms 112:2 ).
Psalms 121:1 In these first words of one of the greatest Psalms of David, the nobleness which we immediately feel seems to lie in this, that David will seek help only from the highest source. Noth...
Psalms 121:1 . I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. It is wise to look to the strong for strength. Dwellers in valleys are subject to many disorders for which ther...
Psalms 121:1 . I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. Zion and mount Moriah, on which the temple stood. See on Psalms 125:2 . REFLECTIONS. In the preseding psalm we found the man of God mo...
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. Guaranteed security I. The godly man’s need. “Help.” Can never outgrow this: dependence the characteristic of the creature: “help” must be had in the co...
EXPOSITION THE preceding psalm is one of complaint; the present, one of comfort and consolation. The pilgrim lifts up his eyes to the hills, and is satisfied that help is coming to him. He the...
I will lift up mine eyes, in anxious, yet trustful desire and longing, unto the hills, regarded as the throne of Jehovah, from whence cometh my help, or, in the form of a question, "From whence w...
Isaiah 2:3 ; Jeremiah 3:23 ; Psalms 123:1 ; Psalms 2:6 ; Psalms 68:15 ; Psalms 68:16 ; Psalms 78:68 ; Psalms 87:1 ; Psalms 120:1
Hills — To Sion and Moriah, which are called the holy mountains.