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Psalms 121:4
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2 aMy help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth. 
3 aHe will not allow your foot to1 be moved;
bHe who keeps you will not slumber. 
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your1 keeper;
The Lord is ayour shade bat your right hand. 
6 aThe sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night. 
7 The Lord shall1 preserve you from all evil;
He shall apreserve your soul. 
8 The Lord shall apreserve your going out and your coming in
From this time forth, and even forevermore. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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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,

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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.


 
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