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A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? See also: Psalms 120:1 Psalms 123:1 Jeremiah 3:23My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. See also: Isaiah 41:13 Psalms 124:8 Hebrews 13:6He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. See also: Proverbs 3:26 Proverbs 3:23 1 Samuel 2:9Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. See also: Psalms 127:1 Isaiah 27:3 Psalms 32:7-8The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand. See also: Isaiah 25:4 Psalms 91:1 Exodus 13:21The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. See also: Revelation 7:16 Isaiah 49:10 Psalms 91:5-10The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul. See also: 2 Timothy 4:18 Psalms 91:9-12 Psalms 41:2The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more. See also: Deuteronomy 28:6 Proverbs 2:8 Proverbs 3:6

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)7 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
Douay-Rheims numbering: Psalm 120

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Introduction to the chapter

PSALM CXX. (LEVAVI OCULOS.)

God is the keeper of his servants.

Psalms 120:1

Ver. 1. Canticle. David wrote this during his flight from Absalom; (Grot.) and de Muis judges from the martial air, that it was composed in the midst of danger.

It relates to the captives, (Orig.

C.) and to all in the pilgrimage of this world. Bert. --- Mountains. Jerusalem, and heaven, whence all our help must come. God most readily hears the prayers which are poured forth in places appointed by him. W. --- Jerusalem was situated among mountains, and the Jews turned towards it in prayer. Dan.

vi. 10. They did not depend on human aid. Jer. iii. 22.

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Psalms 120:3

Ver. 3. May. Heb. "he will not." Many have read in the second person, both in the Heb. and Sept. "Suffer not thy," &c. Aquila, S. Aug. &c. C.

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Psalms 120:4

Ver. 4. Israel. The Church militant. W. --- These figurative expressions shew that God will never cease to protect his people. Bert.

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Psalms 120:5

Ver. 5. Hand. Always ready. Ps. xc. 4. and xv. 8. H.

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Psalms 120:6

Ver. 6. Night. Neither prosperity nor adversity shall hurt thee, (S. Jer.) or the Church. W. ---

Cold is said to burn or parch up. Gen. xxxi. 40. Justin (2) writes of the Scythians, Quanquam continuis frigoribut urantur, as the effects of extreme heat and cold are similar. The Jews were protected from both at their return; (Is. iv. 6. and xlix. 10. C.) though we may doubt of this explanation, as the text is applied to those in heaven. Apoc. vii. 16. Bert.

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Psalms 120:7

Ver. 7. Keepeth. Heb. also, "shall or may." The words of a prophet are always true, and the tenses are varied at pleasure by S. Jerom, &c. Bert. --- Soul, or spiritual life. W. 1 Pet. i. 4.

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Psalms 120:8

Ver. 8. Coming in. Heb. has, "going out," first. Bert. --- Yet Pagnin agrees with us. H. --- This expression denotes all the occurrences of life. Deut. xxviii. 6. C.

--- We may discover a beautiful progression in this psalm; God protects us from each and from every danger. Bert. --- He is not like earthly friends, who have not always the will or the power to do it. S. Chrys.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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