Psalms 121:5
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Psalms 121:5 in other translations
| BSB | The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand. |
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| WEB | The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand. |
| ASV | Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand. |
| YLT | Jehovah is thy preserver, Jehovah is thy shade on thy right hand, |
| DARBY | Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand; |
| BBE | The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. |
| Webster | The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. |
What does Psalms 121:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Psalms 121:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 121:5
- Isaiah 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
- Psalms 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- Exodus 13:21
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
- Psalms 16:8
I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Isaiah 4:5-6
And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
- Psalms 109:31
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
- Isaiah 32:2
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
- Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 121:4
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
- Psalms 121:5
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- Psalms 121:6
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalms 121:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová es tu guardador: Jehová es tu sombra á tu mano derecha. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ Éternel est celui qui te garde; l’ Éternel est ton ombre, à ta main droite. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova ist dein Hüter, Jehova ist dein Schatten über deiner rechten Hand. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quia illic sederunt sedes in judicio, sedes super domum David. |