Psalms Chapter 121 verse 1 Holy Bible

Psalms 121 : 1 Bible Verse Songs

• I Look To You by Whitney Houston
• Lift Up Your Eyes Unto The Hills by Mahalia Buchanan + Joyous Celebration
• Kingdom Come (Lift Up Your Heads by KXC
• Eyes On You by Mosaic MSC
• Are You Listening by United Pursuit
• Found My Hope by Nathan Taylor
• Looking Up by Nashville Life Music + Cece Winans
• Lift My Eyes by Alisa Turner
• The Answer by Jeremy Camp
• Shoulders by For King & Country
• My Help by Eben
• Fade by River Valley Worship
• Can't Get Enough by Fearless BND
• Glory to God by Cameron Moder
• Psalm 121 in Hebrew by Joshua Aaron
• Unknown by Mosaic MSC
• Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness
• Psalm 121 (He Watches Over You) by The Psalm Project
• Praise You In This Storm by Natalie Grant
• Mai Taimako Na (My Helper) by Solomon Lange
• Lift Up My Eyes by Rivers & Robots
• I Look Up by We Are Messengers
• I Look To You by New Creation Worship
• I Lift My Eyes by Laura Story
• Just Like God by Evvie McKinney
• Lift My Eyes by I Am They
• Psalm 121 (I Lift My Eyes) by Keith & Kristyn Getty
• Help by Anthony Brown
• Father I Stretch by Anthony Brown
• All of My Help by Ricky Dillard
• Good Grace by Hillsong United
• God I Look To You by Maranda Curtis
• Keep My Eyes Up by Housefires + Ryan Ellis
• Keep My Eyes Up by Housefires + Ryan Ellis
• Keep My Eyes Up by Housefires + Ryan Ellis
• Keep My Eyes Up by Housefires + Ryan Ellis
• My Help by Gateway Worship + Josh Baldwin

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. The "holy hills," that stand round about Jerusalem, are intended (Psalm 87:1; Psalm 125:2). There God had "promised his blessing, even life forevermore" (Psalm 133:3). From whence cometh my help. Most modern critics regard this clause as interrogative, and translate, "Whence is it that my help shall come?" But "the question is only asked to give more effect to the answer" (Cheyne).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) Whence.--Our version is certainly incorrect in following the LXX. and Vulg. in making whence a relative. The Hebrew word is always interrogative; even in Joshua 2:4 it is indirectly interrogative. But the margin is hardly right in making the whole verse interrogative. Render, I will lift up mine eyes to the hills. Whence comes my help? The hills are those on which Jerusalem is built, the plural being understood, as in Psalm 87:1. (See Note.) This gaze of hope does not absolutely decide the standpoint of the poet. He might have been like Ezekiel (Ezekiel 6:2) when bidden to turn "towards the mountains of Israel" in the distant plain of Mesopotamia; or he may have been close on the end of the pilgrim journey, and actually under the sacred hills. But wherever he stands, this question is not one of doubt; he knows, as in Psalm 3:4; Psalm 14:7, that help will come from God's holy hill "out of Zion." He puts the question for the sake of the emphatic answer in the next verse. Possibly, as suggested by the marginal rendering and reference, the poet may in his mind have been contrasting the confidence with which a worshipper of Jehovah might look up to the sacred city on the crest of the holy hill with that superstition and idolatry which was associated with so many hills and high places in Canaan. If this is so, the best commentary, both on the poetry and the religion of the psalm, is to be found in Mr. Ruskin's fascinating discourses on mountains in "Modern Painters," their influence on the ancient, mediaeval, and modern mind, and the part they have played alike in the mythology of the pagan times and the religion of the Christian world. There must also be added, in connection with the feeling of the Jew, the part his mountains played as a barrier of defence (Psalm 125:2), and as heights of observation from which to watch for the messengers of peace (Isaiah 52:7; Nahum 1:15). . . .