A Prayer asking help from God, inspired by psalms 121. #psalms121 #prayer

The LORD is Our Keeper
Psalm 121 is a beautiful poem that reminds us of what we somehow keep forgetting—that we do not have to live in fear, because we have a God who keeps us. This poem is part of the Psalms of Ascent (Psalms 120-134), a group of songs believed to have been sung by Jewish pilgrims as they traveled to worship in the temple in Jerusalem. It’s a passage that offers comfort because of who God is and what he’s done.

This psalm has come to mind often in the last year. In 2020, I think we could all probably use a dose of hope that these verses provide. Yet this passage is more than a quick bandage to help us feel better. It doesn’t offer surface-level comfort. No. Psalm 121 offers truth we can cling to even when the worries and realities of life threaten to undo us.

So as we jump into this passage, we’re going to look at three questions:

1. Who is this God who keeps us?
2. What does keep even mean?
3. And is it actually true that he keeps us from all evil?

Psalm 121 gives great comfort—and also a lot to wrestle through. But when we sit with these words, honestly and prayerfully seeking to know God better, we’ll be able to hold even more tightly to him as our keeper.

Who is This God?
Psalm 121:1-2 says, “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” If we’re going to understand this passage, we have to look at who this God actually is and what he is like.
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The Book of Psalms (/sɑː(l)mz/ SAH(L)MZ, US also /sɔː(l)mz/;[1] Biblical Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים‎, romanized: Tehillīm, lit. 'praises'; Ancient Greek: Ψαλμός, romanized: Psalmós; Latin: Liber Psalmorum; Arabic: زَبُورُ, romanized: Zabūr), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called Ketuvim ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament.[2]

The book is an anthology of Hebrew religious hymns. In the Jewish and Western Christian traditions, there are 150 psalms, and several more in the Eastern Christian churches.[3][4] The book is divided into five sections, each ending with a doxology, a hymn of praise. There are several types of psalms, including hymns or songs of praise, communal and individual laments, royal psalms, imprecation, and individual thanksgivings. The book also includes psalms of communal thanksgiving, wisdom, pilgrimage and other categories.

Many of the psalms contain attributions to the name of King David and other Biblical figures including Asaph, the sons of Korah, Moses and Solomon. Davidic authorship of the Psalms is not accepted as historical fact by modern scholars, who view it as a way to link biblical writings to well-known figures; while the dating of the Psalms is “notoriously difficult,” some are considered preexilic and others postexilic.[4] The Dead Sea Scrolls suggest that the ordering and content of the later psalms (Psalms 90–150) was not fixed as of the mid-1st century CE.[5][6] Septuagint scholars, including Eugene Ulrich, have argued that the Hebrew Psalter was not closed until the 1st century CE.[7][8]

The English-language title of the book derives from the Greek word psalmoi (ψαλμοί), meaning 'instrumental music', and by extension referring to "the words accompanying the music".[9] Its Hebrew name, Tehillim (תהילים), means 'praises', as it contains many praises and supplications to God.

Structure
For the Orthodox Christian division into kathismata, see below.

An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Psalm 23, from the Religious Tract Society's magazine The Sunday at Home
Sections
The Book of Psalms is divided into five sections, each closing with a doxology (i.e., a benediction). These divisions were probably introduced by the final editors to imitate the

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