Salmos 121:4

La Biblia Reina-Valera

He aquí, no se adormecerá ni dormirá El que guarda á Israel.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
He aquí, no se adormecerá ni dormirá el que guarda a Israel.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
He aqu�, no se adormecer� ni dormir� el que guarda a Israel.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
He aqu�, no se adormecer� ni dormir� el que guarda a Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he that: Psalms 27:1, Psalms 32:7, Psalms 32:8, Psalms 127:1, Isaiah 27:3

shall: 1 Kings 18:27, Ecclesiastes 8:16, Revelation 7:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:14 - a covering Numbers 6:24 - keep thee 2 Samuel 8:14 - the Lord Proverbs 3:24 - liest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. He that kept Israel or Jacob, when asleep, and appeared to him in a dream, and promised to keep him in all places, and did; who found his posterity in the wilderness, and kept them as the apple of his eye: he keeps his spiritual Israel, whom he has chosen, redeemed, and calls; and he that is in general their keeper, is the keeper of every particular believer, who may promise themselves the utmost safety under his care; since, though he may sometimes seem to sleep, when he withdraws his gracious presence, defers help, and does not arise so soon to the assistance of his people as they wish for and expect; yet does not in reality sleep, nor is any ways negligent of them; no, not so much as slumber, nor is in the least indifferent about them, and careless of them; see Genesis 28:15. So Homer k represents Jupiter as not held by sleep, while other gods and men slept all night; and hence Milton l has the phrase of "the unsleeping eyes of God": but the Phrygians had a notion that their god slept in winter, and was awake in summer m.

k Iliad. 2. v. 1, 2. l Paradise Lost, B. 5. v. 647. m Plutarch. de Iside & Osir. prope finem.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, he that keepeth Israel - The Keeper - the Guardian - of his people. The psalmist here passes from his own particular case to a general truth - a truth to him full of consolation. It is, that the people of God must always be safe; that their great Guardian never slumbers; and that he, as one of his people, might, therefore, confidently look for his protecting care.

Shall neither slumber nor sleep - Never slumbers, never ceases to be watchful. Man sleeps; a sentinel may slumber on his post, by inattention, by long-continued wakefulness, or by weariness; a pilot may slumber at the helm; even a mother may fall asleep by the side of the sick child; but God is never exhausted, is never weary, is never inattentive. He never closes his eyes on the condition of his people, on the needs of the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 121:4. He that keepeth Israel — The Divine Being represents himself as a watchman, who takes care of the city and its inhabitants during the night-watches; and who is never overtaken with slumbering or sleepiness. There is a thought in the Antigone of Sophocles, that seems the counterpart of this of the psalmist,

Ταν σαν, Ζευ, δυναμιν τις ανδρων

Ὑπερβασια κατασχοι,

Ταν ουθ' ὑπνος αἱ -

ρει ποθ' ὁ παντογηρως,

Ακαματοι τε θεων

Μηνες;

Antig. ver. 613, Edit. Johnson.

Shall men below control great Jove above,

Whose eyes by all-subduing sleep

Are never closed, as feeble mortals' are;

But still their watchful vigil keep

Through the long circle of th' eternal year?

FRANKLIN.