3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
For Yahweh will be your confidence, And will keep your foot from being taken.
Who preserves our life among the living, And doesn't allow our feet to be moved.
They will bear you up in their hands, So that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
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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.