Psalms 121:5
3 He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
4 Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
- KJV
- The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- WEB
- The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
- ASV
- Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- DARBY
- Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;
- BLB
- YHWH [is] the One guarding you; YHWH [is] your shade on your right hand.
- ÅB
- Herren er din vokter, Herren er din skygge ved din høyre hånd.
- OTB
- Herren er din vokter;
Herren gir skygge ved din høyre hånd. - B1930
- Herren er din vokter, Herren er din skygge ved din høire hånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 25:4
For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
Read in contextPsalms 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Read in contextExodus 13:21
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.
Read in contextPsalms 16:8
I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Read in contextIsaiah 4:5–6
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
Read in contextPsalms 109:31
For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:2
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
Read in contextMatthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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