Psalms 121:1
A Canticle in steps. I rejoiced in the things that were said to me: “We shall go into the house of the Lord.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
In Context
2Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
Psalms 120:1A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me.
Isaiah 2:3And many peoples will go, and they will say: “Let us approach and ascend to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, 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 →