{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa121.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa121.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa121.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nI will lift up mine eyes--expresses desire (compare Psa 25:1), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,\nby avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Psa 115:15), to which,\nHis sleepless vigilance is added.\nto be moved--(Compare Psa 38:16; Psa 66:9).\nupon thy right hand--a protector's place (Psa 109:31; Psa 110:5).\nGod keeps His people at all times and in all perils.\nnor the moon by night--poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides (Gen 1:16).\nthy going out, &c.--all thy ways (Deu 28:19; Psa 104:23).\nevermore--includes a future state.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 121","type":"page"}