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.'


I will lift up mine eyes, unto the mountains, From whence cometh my help!

My help, is from Yahweh, who made heavens and earth.

May he not suffer thy foot, to slip, May thy keeper, not slumber!

Lo! neither will slumber nor sleep, The keeper of Israel.

Yahweh, is thy keeper, Yahweh, is thy shade, on thy right hand:

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

Yahweh, will keep thee from all harm, He will keep thy life.

Yahweh, will keep thy going out and thy coming in, from henceforth, even unto times age-abiding.

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