8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.
Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out.
Blessed be the name of Jehovah, from this time forth and for evermore!
Even aforetime, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel; and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.
And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones.
in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.
Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,) instead of your saying, If the Lord should [so] will and we should live, we will also do this or that. But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
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Commentary on Psalms 121 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 121
Ps 121:1-8. God's guardian care of His people celebrated.
1. I will lift up mine eyes—expresses desire (compare Ps 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,
2. by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Ps 115:15), to which,
3, 4. His sleepless vigilance is added.
to be moved—(Compare Ps 38:16; 66:9).
5. upon thy right hand—a protector's place (Ps 109:31; 110:5).
6-8. God keeps His people at all times and in all perils.
nor the moon by night—poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides (Ge 1:16).
8. thy going out, &c.—all thy ways (De 28:19; Ps 104:23).
evermore—includes a future state.