Psalms 123:1
I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
BSB
ASV
Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that sittest in the heavens.
KJV
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes,.... Not only the eyes of his body, this being a prayer gesture; see Mat 14:19; but the eyes of his mind and understanding, opened by the Spirit of God; particularly the eye of faith, by which he looked for and expected help and salvation from the Lord.
My opinion, then, rather is, that this form of prayer was composed for all the godly by some Prophet, either when the Jews were captives in Babylon, or when Antiochus Epiphanes exercised towards them the most relentless cruelty.
Unto thee - To God. Lift I up mine eyes - In supplication and prayer. Nature prompts us to look up when we address God, as if he dwelt above us. It is the natural prompting of the heart that he must be the most exalted of all beings, dwelling above all. See Psa 121:1. O thou that dwellest in the heavens - Whose home - whose special home - is in heaven - above the sky.
Unto thee lift I up mine eyes. It is good to have some one to look up to. The Psalmist looked so high that he could look no higher. Not to the hills, but to the God of the hills he looked. He believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf. The uplifted eyes naturally and instinctively represent the state of heart which fixes desire, hope, confidence, and expectation upon the Lord.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 121:1I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
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In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that…
“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
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Psalms 2:4The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.
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but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
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Psalms 25:15My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
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But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.