Psalms 121:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 121:2

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

My helpcomethfrom Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.

WEB

My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.

YLT

My help is from Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,

DBT

My help [cometh] from Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

11 verses on the floor

Isaiah 41:13
For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Psalms 124:8
Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Hebrews 13:6
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Isaiah 40:28–29
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

"This (says Dr. Hammond) may refer to Christ incarnate, with whose humanity the Deity being inseparably united, God is always present with him, and, through him, with us, for whom, sitting at God's right hand, he constantly maketh intercession." Christ is called the angel of his presence, that saved his people, Isa. lxiii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

by avowing God to be the helper, of whose ability His creative power is a pledge (Ps 115:15), to which, 3, 4. His sleepless vigilance is added. to be moved--(Compare Ps 38:16;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words1

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H582821× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 121:2HEB 13:6 ISA 41:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 121:2HEB 13:6 PSA 118:6-9
PSA 121:2HEB 13:6 ROM 8:31
PSA 121:2HEB 13:6 PSA 27:1-3
PSA 121:2HEB 13:6 PSA 124:8
PSA 121:2ISA 41:13 PSA 73:23
PSA 121:2ISA 41:13 PSA 63:8
PSA 121:2ISA 41:13 PSA 109:31

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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