Psalms 121 – I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills

A traveler's psalm of confidence in the LORD who neither slumbers nor sleeps.

Psalms 121 – My Help Comes from the Lord

Continuing straight from the complaint of Psalms 120, this psalm answers with confidence, opening with its best-known line, Psalms 121:1, 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.'


A Song of Ascents. I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?

My help cometh from HaShem, who made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, He that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleep.

HaShem is thy keeper; HaShem is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

HaShem shall keep thee from all evil; He shall keep thy soul.

HaShem shall guard thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth and for ever.

Its picture of a LORD who 'shall neither slumber nor sleep' answers the anxious cry that opens <a href="/bible/jps/psalms/chapter-120/1">Psalms 120:1</a>, and the ascent continues toward Jerusalem in <a href="/bible/jps/psalms/chapter-122">Psalms 122</a>.