Day 2 of 15

Psalms 121

Before You Read

Lifting eyes to the hills, the pilgrim finds help in the LORD, Maker of heaven and earth, the unsleeping keeper who guards his people's going out and coming in forevermore.

A Song of Ascents, a pilgrim blessing of trust in the LORD as unsleeping keeper on the journey.

Read Psalms 121
With the Fathers

1. ...Let them “lift up their eyes to the hills whence comes their help” Psalm 120:1. What means, The hills have been lightened? The Sun of righteousness has already risen, the Gospel has been already preached by the Apostles, the Scriptures have been preached, all the mysteries have been laid open, the veil has been rent, the secret place of the temple has been revealed: let them now at length lift their eyes up to…

Augustine, Exposition on Psalm 121

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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