Psalms 121 Cross References - BBE

¹ A Song of the going up. My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from? ² Your help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. ³ May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you. ⁴ See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep. ⁵ The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ⁶ You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night. ⁷ The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul. ⁸ The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.

⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

¹⁵ A hill of God is the hill of Bashan; a hill with high tops is the hill of Bashan. ¹⁶ Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

⁶⁸ But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

¹ Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song. This house is resting on the holy mountain.

¹ A Song of the going up. In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.

¹ A Song of the going up. To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

³ And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

²³ Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

¹⁵ May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: ⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

²⁸ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom. ²⁹ He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

¹³ For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.

¹¹ But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

⁹ I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

⁶ So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?

⁹ He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

² The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.

⁹ Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.

¹² In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

¹ A Song of the going up. Of Solomon. If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

⁸ He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

²³ Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

²⁶ For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

³ I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

⁵ Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

²⁷ And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

⁷ You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. Selah. ⁸ I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

¹⁶ When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night,

¹⁵ This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.

²¹ And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:

⁸ I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

³¹ For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

⁵ And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent; ⁶ And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.

⁴ For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

⁵ You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day, ⁶ Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high. ⁷ You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. ⁸ Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers. ⁹ Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place; ¹⁰ No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

¹⁰ They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.

⁸ Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

¹⁶ They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:

¹⁹ He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you. ²⁰ When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. ²¹ He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes. ²² You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth. ²³ For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. ²⁴ And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone. ²⁵ You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth. ²⁶ You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time. ²⁷ See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

²² The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

⁹ Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place; ¹⁰ No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent. ¹¹ For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go. ¹² In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

¹⁰ You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

²⁰ The Lord will keep all his worshippers from danger; but he will send destruction on all sinners.

²¹ No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

²⁸ And we are conscious that all things are working together for good to those who have love for God, and have been marked out by his purpose.

³⁵ Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction. ³⁷ But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love. ³⁸ For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers, ³⁹ Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

⁶ A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

² In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.

²¹ Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

³¹ Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was on us, and he gave us salvation from our haters and those who were waiting to make an attack on us by the way.

² Let blessing be on the name of the Lord, from this time and for ever.

¹⁸ But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.

⁶ In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

¹³ How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: ¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. ¹⁵ But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. ¹⁶ But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.