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Psalm 121 Geneva Bible (1599)

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Notes on this text (2)
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A song of degrees. I will lift mine eyes vnto the mountaines, from whence mine helpe shall come.
1 A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
2 Mine helpe commeth from the Lord, which hath made the heauen and the earth.
2 My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
3 He wil not suffer thy foote to slippe: for he that keepeth thee, will not slumber.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Beholde, he that keepeth Israel, wil neither slumber nor sleepe.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shadow at thy right hand.
5 Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sunne shall not smite thee by day, nor the moone by night.
6 The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserue thee from all euil: he shall keepe thy soule.
7 Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
8 The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in from henceforth and for euer.
8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.
Cross references (8)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 120:1; Psalm 123:1; Jeremiah 3:23; Isaiah 2:3; Psalm 2:6
  2. 2 Isaiah 41:13; Psalm 124:8; Hebrews 13:6; Isaiah 40:28–29; Psalm 146:5–6
  3. 3 Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 3:23; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 91:12; Psalm 66:9
  4. 4 Psalm 127:1; Isaiah 27:3; Psalm 32:7–8; 1 Kings 18:27; Ecclesiastes 8:16
  5. 5 Isaiah 25:4; Psalm 91:1; Exodus 13:21; Psalm 16:8; Isaiah 4:5–6
  6. 6 Revelation 7:16; Isaiah 49:10; Psalm 91:5–10; Jonah 4:8
  7. 7 2 Timothy 4:18; Psalm 91:9–12; Psalm 41:2; Proverbs 12:21; Psalm 145:20
  8. 8 Deuteronomy 28:6; Proverbs 2:8; Proverbs 3:6; Psalm 113:2; Ezra 8:31

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXX)

    The Psalm which we have just heard chanted, and have responded to with our voices, is short, and very profitable. Ye will not long toil in hearing, nor will ye toil fruitlessly in working. For it is, according to the title prefixed to it, "A song of degrees." Degrees are either of ascent or of descent.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 121:4 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book X, Chapters XXXII–XXXIV)

    Thou never ceasest to pluck them out, but I, constantly remain fast in the snares set all around me; because Thou "that keepest Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 121:3 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews (Homily XII)

    cxxi. 4 ), and "Do not suffer thy foot to be moved." ( Ps.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)

  4. Quotes verse 121:4 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon LV)

    "Except the Lord keep the city, he that keepeth it waketh but in vain." And what "city"? "He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." What is Israel, but the seed of Abraham?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 121:4 Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John (Chapter VIII — 48-59)

    He knew that He was our keeper. For "He that keepeth Israel neither slumbereth nor sleepeth;" and, "Except the Lord keep the city, they wake in vain who keep it." He then is our Keeper who is our Creator.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)