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 they did so remarkable a barrier to the land on every side except towards the sea, suggested to the writer of the Psalm an emblem of the Divine protection.
I. Here we have the grand distinction between the faith of the Jew and that of the heathen. The Jew knew that "the gods of the heathen are but idols, but it is the Lord that made the heavens." The whole Bible is merely the unfolding of that truth with which its first chapter so simply yet so sublimely opens.
II. This belief in God as the Creator and Preserver of all things applies in particular to man as the chiefest and best of God's works (Psalm viii.).
III. This faith in God as man's Creator and Preserver led the writers of these Psalms to trust their souls to Him as well as their bodies; led them to look to Him as their Saviour, not only from earthly troubles and dangers, but also from those spiritual troubles which are man's heaviest trials.
IV. There is yet a further growth which we can trace from this faith in God as the Creator and Preserver I mean the belief of the psalmists in a life beyond the grave.
G. Forbes, The Voice of God in the Psalms,p. 94.
Reference: Psalms 121:1; Psalms 121:2. R. Tuck, Christian World Pulpit,vol. xiv., p. 154.