“ My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. ”
My help cometh from the Lord - From Yahweh. This is the answer to the anxious inquiry in Psalms 121:1 . It indicates (a) a consciousness that help could come only from God; (b) a belief that...
My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made (a) heaven and earth. (a) He accuses man's ingratitude, which cannot depend on God's power.
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.
My help. Figure of speech, Anadiplosis , repeated from end of Psalms 121:1 . the LORD . Jehovah (App-4.), not the hills. Which made heaven and earth. The reference is to the burden of Heze...
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....
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. My help cometh from the Lord - There is no help for me but in my God; and I expect it from no other quarter.
My help cometh from the Lord— My help is from the house of the Lord. מעם Meim, is not from the Lord, but from with the Lord; from where he resides.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth - and who has at command, therefore, inexhaustible means of help for His p...
The song of the traveller, whose guide is Jehovah.
My help cometh... — Not as the superstition of the Canaanite said, from the sacred summits themselves, but from their Creator’s Lord. It is noticeable that the style, “maker of heaven and earth,” i...
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...
From the opening of the Psalm under the several views which I have humbly offered, every part that follows will be easy to apprehend, without enlarging the comment. Every believing soul who looks to...
My help [cometh] from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Who helps his people out of the hands of all their enemies, and out of all their troubles and afflictions; he helps them in the performa...
My help [cometh] from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Ver. 2. My help cometh from the Lord ] To whom, therefore, alone I must look for help. Sursum corda, sursum etiam capita. Naturalists...
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...
From God alone, and therefore to him alone will I turn mine eyes.
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...
Psalms 121:1-2 To the mind of the Jewish poet the everlasting hills of his native land were as shadows of the Infinite. The security which these mountain-ranges afforded to Palestine, forming as t...
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...
The Guardian Care of the Lord. A song of degrees, full of believing fervor due to the consciousness of the fellowship of God with His children on earth.
Hebrews 13:6 ; Hosea 13:9 ; Isaiah 40:28 ; Isaiah 40:29 ; Isaiah 41:13 ; Jeremiah 20:11 ; Psalms 124:8 ; Psalms 146:5 ; Psalms 146:6 ; Psalms 46:1