Psalms 121:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 121:6

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

KJV

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ASV

The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.

WEB

The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

YLT

By day the sun doth not smite thee, Nor the moon by night.

DBT

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

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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4 verses on the floor

Revelation 7:16
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Psalms 91:5–10
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

We must fetch in help from God, by faith in his promises, and a due regard to all his institutions: " I will lift up my eyes to the hills " (probably he meant the hills on which the temple was built, Mount Moriah, and the holy hill of Zion, where the ark of the covenant, the oracle, and the altars were);

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): The sun shall not smite thee with his heat by day nor the moon with her cold and moisture by night. The sun and moon are great blessings to mankind, and yet (such a sad change has sin made in the creation) even the sun and moon, though worshipped by a great part of mankind, are often instruments of hurt and distemper to human bodies;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Smite - With excessive heat. Moon - With that cold and moisture which come into the air by it. Intemperate heats and colds are the springs of many diseases.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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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 121:6REV 7:16 ISA 49:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 121:6ISA 49:10 MAT 5:6
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 121:6ISA 49:10 REV 7:16-17
PSA 121:6ISA 49:10 EZE 34:23
PSA 121:6REV 7:16 JHN 4:14
PSA 121:6REV 7:16 LUK 6:21
PSA 121:6REV 7:16 REV 21:4
PSA 121:6ISA 49:10 ISA 33:16

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