Psalms 121:1
A Song of the going up. My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
In Context
2Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 78:68But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.
Psalms 120:1A Song of the going up. In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.
Isaiah 2:3And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 121:1
Some call this the soldier's psalm, and think it was penned in the camp, when David was hazarding his life in the high places of the field, and thus trusted God to cover his head in the day of battle. Others call it the traveller's psalm (for there is nothing in it of military dangers) and think David penned it when he was going abroad, and designed it pro vehiculo—for the carriage, for a good man's convoy and companion in a journey or voyage. But we need not thus appropriate it; wherever we are, at home or… Read the whole commentary →