I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
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Psalms 121:1-3
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Ps 121 The leader of the group of pilgrims uses word pictures to assure the group of the Lord’s presence during the journey.
121:1 The mountains were known for their idolatrous worship (Deut 12:2), and Israel was enticed to the hilltop shrines (Hos 4:13). This verse can be understood as a rhetorical question expecting a negative answer: The gods of the hilltop shrines cannot rescue anyone. Others understand the mountains to be a symbol of the Lord’s strength (Ps 95:4). In that case, the question would be interpreted literally (Where does my help come from?), with the answer given in the next verse
Other Bible passages linked to this one, most cited first.
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
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