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<p id="Chapter121" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 121
<p id="Ps121_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',121,'1-8');">Psa 121:1-8</a>.
<p>God's guardian care of His people celebrated.
<p><b>1. I will lift up mine eyes</b>&#8212;expresses desire (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',25,1);">Psa 25:1</a>), mingled with expectation. The last clause, read as a question, is answered,
<p id="Ps121_2"><b>2.</b> by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',115,15);">Psa 115:15</a>), to which,
<p id="Ps121_3"><b>3, 4.</b> His sleepless vigilance is added.
<br><br><b>to be moved</b>&#8212;(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,16);">Psa 38:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',66,9);">66:9</a>).
<p id="Ps121_5"><b>5. upon thy right hand</b>&#8212;a protector's place (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',109,31);">Psa 109:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',110,5);">110:5</a>).
<p id="Ps121_6"><b>6-8.</b> God keeps His people at all times and in all perils.
<br><br><b>nor the moon by night</b>&#8212;poetically represents the dangers of the night, over which the moon presides (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',1,16);">Gen 1:16</a>).
<p id="Ps121_8"><b>8. thy going out,</b> etc.&#8212;all thy ways (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,19);">Deu 28:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',104,23);">Psa 104:23</a>).
<br><br><b>evermore</b>&#8212;includes a future state.
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