the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 121:8
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The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever.
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in From this time forth and for evermore.
The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever.
The Lord will protect you in all you do, now and forevermore.
The LORD will preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever.
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in [everything that you do] From this time forth and forever.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
The Lord kepe thi goyng in and thi goyng out; fro this tyme now and in to the world.
The LORD shall keep thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for evermore.
The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
The Lord will protect you now and always wherever you go.
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.
The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.
Adonai will guard your coming and going from now on and forever.
Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth and for evermore.
The Lord will protect you as you come and go, both now and forever!
The LORD shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for ever.
The Lord shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in: from this time foorth and euen for euermore.
The Lord will watch over your coming and going, now and forever.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore.
The Lorde shall preserue thy going out, and thy comming in from henceforth & for euer.
The LORD will preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even for evermore.
He will protect you as you come and go now and forever.
Yahweh, will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth, even unto times age-abiding.
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Deut. 28:6; Prov. 2:8; 3:6.">[fn]
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore.
God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore.
The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.
The Lord will protect your coming and goingboth now and forever.
The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, From this time forth, and forevermore.
Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in from now until forever.
Jehovah shall keep your going out, and your coming in, from now on and till forever.
Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!
The LORDE preserueth thy goinge out and thy comynge in, from this tyme forth for euermore.
The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in From this time and forever.
The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever.
Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming inFrom now until forever.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thy going out: Deuteronomy 28:6, Deuteronomy 28:19, 2 Samuel 5:2, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 8:31, Proverbs 2:8, Proverbs 3:6, James 4:13-16
from this time: Psalms 113:2, Psalms 115:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 8:16 - General Genesis 8:18 - General 1 Samuel 2:9 - will keep 1 Samuel 18:13 - he went out 1 Samuel 29:6 - thy going 1 Samuel 30:23 - who hath 2 Samuel 3:25 - and to know 2 Samuel 8:6 - the Lord 1 Kings 3:7 - to go 2 Kings 19:27 - thy going out 1 Chronicles 18:6 - Thus the Lord 2 Chronicles 15:5 - no peace Job 5:24 - thou shalt visit Psalms 12:7 - thou shalt Psalms 26:1 - I shall Psalms 37:23 - steps Psalms 56:8 - tellest Proverbs 3:23 - General Proverbs 24:12 - that keepeth Jeremiah 36:26 - but Matthew 2:22 - being Matthew 6:13 - deliver Acts 9:28 - coming
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in,.... In transacting all the business of life, in going in and out about it; in all ways, works, and conversation; in journeying and travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only preserve, but prosper in all, Psalms 1:3; the Lord blessing him, coming in and going out,
Deuteronomy 28:6; and such, with the poet x, are said to go with a good or prosperous foot. And such persons, in the Punic language, are called Namphanians, as Austin observes y; who says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems to be the contraction of נעם פעמו, which signifies "his good" or "pleasant foot" z; and so one that, wherever he comes and goes, things prosper with him, and with those that are in connection with him: such an one was Jacob in the house of Laban, whom the Lord blessed, as he says, "since my coming", or at "my foot", Deuteronomy 28:6- :; and such a foot Joseph had wherever he went, Genesis 39:5. Arama interprets it of a man's going out into the air of this world, and of his entrance into the world to come. The Targum is,
"the Lord will keep thy going out to business, and thy coming in to study in the law.''
from this time forth, and even for evermore; for the Lord not only preserves his people in life and at death, but in heaven, to all eternity; in the utmost safety and peace from all molestations by men or devils, and from their wrath and malice: not only his purpose and decree, but his power and providence, are the vast gulf between the one and the other; by means of which the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest, Luke 16:26.
x Virgil. Aeneid. l. 8. "Adi pede sacra secundo"; & l. 10. "adsis pede diva secundo." y Epist. 44. z Vid. Sterringae Philol. Sacr. p. 169. Reinesium de Lingua Punica, c. 8. s. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord shall preserve thou going out and thy coming in - Preserve thee in going out and coming in; in going from thy dwelling, and returning to it; in going from home and coming back; that is, everywhere, and at all times. Compare Deuteronomy 28:6. See the notes also at Job 5:24. “From this time forth, and even forevermore.” Through this life and for ever. This is the gracious assurance which is made to all who put their trust in God. At home and abroad; in the house, in the field, and by the way; on the land and on the ocean; in their native country and in climes remote; on earth, in the grave, and in the eternal world, they are always safe. No evil that will endanger their salvation can befal them; nothing can happen to them here but what God shall see to be conducive to their ultimate good; and in the heavenly world they shall be safe forever from every kind of evil, for in that world there will be no sin, and consequently no need of discipline to prepare them for the future.
“In foreign realms, and lands remote,
Supported by thy care,
Through burning climes they pass unhurt,
And breathe in tainted air.
When by the dreadful tempest borne,
High on the broken wave,
They know thou art not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save.
The storm is laid - the winds retire,
Obedient to thy will;
The sea that roars at thy command,
At thy command is still.
In midst of dangers, fears, and death,
Thy goodness we’ll adore;
We’ll praise thee for thy mercies past,
And humbly hope for more.
Our life, while thou preserv’st that life,
Thy sacrifice shall be;
And death, when death shall be our lot,
Shall join our souls to thee.”
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Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 121:8. Thy going out and thy coming in — Night and day - in all thy business and undertakings; and this through the whole course of thy life: for evermore.
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIRST PSALM
The scope of this Psalm is to show that God alone is the refuge of the distressed.
I. While some are looking for earthly comfort and support, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills," c.
II. Faith sees God, the only helper and says, "My help is the Lord."
And the first reason for this is given: God's omnipotence and sufficiency. "The Lord that made heaven and earth," and is consequently the author and dispenser of all spiritual and temporal blessings.
And the second reason is, his grace and goodness; "he will not suffer thy foot to be moved."
A third reason is, his watchful care: "He that keepeth thee will not slumber."
III. The end which God proposes in his watching, - to keep them.
1. He is the "Keeper of Israel." He guards his Church; he is as a wall of fire about it.
2. He is a shade. This certainly refers to that kind of umbraculum, or parasol, which was in very ancient use in the eastern countries. The sense of the passage is, Neither the day of prosperity nor the night of adversity shall hurt thee; nor the heat of persecution, nor the coldness of friends or relatives: all these shall work for thy good.
3. "He shall preserve thee from all evil;" - and,
4. Especially from every thing that might hurt thy soul: "He shall preserve thy soul."
The psalmist concludes with this encouraging assurance.
1. "The Lord shall preserve thy going out." We are always beginning or ending some action, going abroad or returning home; and we need the protecting care of God in all.
2. "From this time forth." Now that thou hast put thy whole trust and confidence in God, he will be thy continual portion and defence in all places, in all times, in all actions; in life, in prosperity, in adversity, in death, in time, and in eternity.
