Psalms 125:1
Those/We who trust in Yahweh are as secure/steadfast [SIM] as Zion Hill, which cannot be shaken and can never be moved.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:20Early the next morning the army left to go to the desert near Tekoa town. While they were leaving, Jehoshaphat stood up and said to the people, “You people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah, listen to me! Trust in Yahweh our God; if you do that, you will be strong. Trust in what his prophets have said; if you do that, you will be successful.”
Psalms 25:2I trust in you. Do not allow my enemies to defeat me, with the result that I would be ashamed/disgraced. Do not allow my enemies to defeat/conquer me, with the result that they would rejoice.
Psalms 27:1Yahweh is the one who gives light to my soul/spirit and the one who saves me, so I do not [RHQ] need to be afraid of anyone. Yahweh is the one to whom I go for refuge, so I will never be afraid.
Psalms 46:5God is in this city, and it will never be destroyed; he will come to help the people in that city at dawn every day.
Psalms 62:2Only he is like an overhanging rock under which I can be safe [MET]; he will be like a shelter, with the result that I will never be defeated [MET].
Psalms 62:6Only he is like an overhanging rock under which I can be safe [MET]; he is like a shelter, and as a result I will never be defeated.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 125:1
This short psalm may be summed up in those words of the prophet ( Isa. iii. 10, 11 ), "Say you to the righteous, It shall be well with him. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him." Thus are life and death, the blessing and the curse, set before us often in the psalms, as well as in the law and the prophets. I. It is certainly well with the people of God; for, 1. They have the promises of a good God that they shall be fixed ( ver. 1 ), and safe ( ver. 2 ), and not always under the hatches, ver. 3 . 2. They… Read the whole commentary →