Psa 121:1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where shall my help come from?
Psa 121:2 My help comes from Jehovah, who made Heaven and earth.
Psa 121:3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
Psa 121:4 Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psa 121:5 Jehovah is your keeper; Jehovah is your shade on your right hand.
Psa 121:6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
Psa 121:7 Jehovah shall keep you from all evil; He shall keep your soul.
Psa 121:8 Jehovah shall keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.
With the previous Psalm being so depressing, this one is needed as an encouragement. Those who are persecuted for righteousness, under intense and unrelenting opposition cast their eyes upward looking for a source of hope… They find the Lord.
How do we survive opposition, slander and everything else? We have a keeper Who never sleeps. We are watched day and night in our entrances and exits. Christ promised to build His Church in spite of the opposition from hell’s gates, and we can know that as we go on with God we will have opposition, but we will have a power stronger than the strongest opposition with us.
This Psalm relates also to the continued existence of Israel even in the face of all the persecution that they have faced worldwide. They are kept until their turning as a nation to Christ at His second coming.
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