the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Psalms 121:5
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The Lord himself watches over you! The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade.
Yahweh is your keeper: Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
The Lord guards you. The Lord is the shade that protects you from the sun.
The Lord is your protector; the Lord is the shade at your right hand.
The LORD [is] thy keeper: the LORD [is] thy shade upon thy right hand.
Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The Lord kepith thee; the Lord is thi proteccioun aboue thi riythond.
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
The Lord is your protector, there at your right side to shade you from the sun.
Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
Adonai is your guardian; at your right hand Adonai provides you with shade —
Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;
The Lord is your Protector. The Lord stands by your side, shading and protecting you.
The LORD is thy keeper; the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade, vpon thy right hand.
The Lord watches over you. The Lord is your safe cover at your right hand.
The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shadow at thy right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD will protect you with his right hand.
The Lord will guard you; he is by your side to protect you.
Yahweh, is thy keeper, Yahweh, is thy shade, on thy right hand:
(120-5) The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.
God hym selfe is thy keper: God is thy defence vpon thy ryght hande.
The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.
The Lord protects you;the Lord is a shelter right by your side.
The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
Yahweh is your protector; Yahweh is your shade at your right hand.
Jehovah is the One keeping you; Jehovah is your shade on your right hand.
Jehovah [is] thy preserver, Jehovah [is] thy shade on thy right hand,
The LORDE himself is thy keper, the LORDE is thy defence vpon yi right honde.
God 's your Guardian, right at your side to protect you— Shielding you from sunstroke, sheltering you from moonstroke.
The LORD is your protector; The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade at your right hand.
The Lord is your keeper; The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
Yahweh is your keeper;Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy shade: Exodus 13:21, Isaiah 4:5, Isaiah 4:6, Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 32:2, Matthew 23:37
upon: Psalms 16:8, Psalms 109:31
Reciprocal: Genesis 28:15 - keep Exodus 13:22 - He took Exodus 26:14 - a covering Numbers 14:9 - defence 1 Samuel 2:9 - will keep 2 Chronicles 6:20 - thine eyes Psalms 91:6 - pestilence Proverbs 2:8 - keepeth Isaiah 49:10 - neither Daniel 3:17 - our God
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord [is] thy keeper,.... This explains more fully who it is that keeps Israel and particular believers, and confirms the same; not a creature, but the Lord; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, in
Psalms 121:7: Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God; who is the keeper of his people by the designation of his Father, who has put them into his hands to be kept by him; and by their full will and consent, who commit the keeping of their souls to him; for which he is abundantly qualified, being able as the mighty God; faithful to him that has appointed him; tender and compassionate to those under his care, whom he keeps as the apple of his eye; and diligent and constant, for he keeps them night and day, lest any hurt them: he keeps them as they are his flock, made his care and charge; as they are the vineyard of the Lord of hosts; as they are a city, which, unless the Lord keeps, the watchmen watch in vain; as they are his body and members of it, and as they are his jewels and peculiar treasure: these he keeps in the love of God; in his own hands; in the covenant of grace; in an estate of grace; and in his own ways, safe to his kingdom and glory;
the Lord [is] thy shade upon thy right hand; he is at the right hand of his people, to hold their right hand; to teach them to go, lead them into communion with himself, and hold them up safe; and to strengthen their right hand, assist them in working, without whom they can do nothing; and to counsel and direct them, and to protect and defend them against all their enemies. So a shadow signifies defence; see Numbers 14:9 Ecclesiastes 7:12; and such great personages are to others; in which sense Virgil n uses the word "shadow"; and much more true is this of God himself. And he is like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land; or of a spreading tree, which is a protection from heat, and very reviving and refreshing; see Isaiah 32:2. The allusion may be to the pillar of cloud by day, which guided and guarded the Israelites in the wilderness, and was a shadow from the heat, Isaiah 4:5; as Christ is from the heat of a fiery law, the flaming sword of justice, the wrath of God, and the fiery darts of Satan.
n "Et magnum reginae nomen obumbrat", Aeneid. l. xi.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord is thy keeper - Thy Preserver; thy Defender. He will keep time from danger; he will keep thee from sin; he will keep thee unto salvation.
The Lord is thy shade - The Lord is as a shadow: as the shadow of a rock, a house, or a tree, in the intense rays of the burning sun. See the notes at Isaiah 25:4.
Upon thy right hand - See Psalms 16:8; Psalms 109:31. Perhaps the particular allusion to the right hand here may be that that was the place of a protector. He would thus be at hand, or would be ready to interpose in defense of him whom he was to guard. It is possible, however, that the idea here may be derived from the fact that in Scripture the geographer is represented as looking to the east, and not toward the north, as with us. Hence, the south is always spoken of as the right, or at the right hand (compare the notes at Psalms 89:12); and as the intense rays of the sun are from the south, the idea may be, that God would be as a shade in the direction from which those burning rays came.
