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.'


The `title of the hundrid and oon and twentithe salm. The song of the grecis of Dauid. I am glad in these thingis, that ben seid to me; We schulen go in to the hous of the Lord.

Oure feet weren stondynge; in thi hallis, thou Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, which is bildid as a citee; whos part taking therof is in to the same thing.

For the lynagis, the lynagis of the Lord stieden thidir, the witnessing of Israel; to knouleche to the name of the Lord.

For thei saten there on seetis in doom; seetis on the hous of Dauid.

Preie ye tho thingis, that ben to the pees of Jerusalem; and abundaunce be to hem that louen thee.

Pees be maad in thi vertu; and abundaunce in thi touris.

For my britheren and my neiyboris; Y spak pees of thee.

For the hous of oure Lord God; Y souyte goodis to thee.

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