Psalm 121:1-4 (Click to read NIV or select your preferred translation of the Bible. Please read the scripture first.) As a child I misunderstood the first verse of this Psalm. Of course, at that time, the King James Version was the only version available, so it read “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” Did God live in the hills? Did my help come from the hills? Fortunately, the newer translations have helped
7“Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock, to be ruler over my people Israel. 8 I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men of the earth. 9 And I will provide a place for my people Israel
1 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. 5 You hem me in–behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain Psalm 139:1-6 NIV This Psalm has been a favorite of