Psalms 121:1
“A song for the degrees.” I lift up my eyes unto the mountains: whence shall come my help?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
In Context
2My help is from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6[Saying,] Yet have I appointed my king upon Zion my holy mount.
Psalms 78:68But he chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 120:1“A song of the degrees.” Unto the Lord, when I was in distress, did I call, and he hath answered me.
Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of 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 →