The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil — This is an advance of the thought. The psalmist had in the previous verses specified s…

Instead of preserve, read keep, the persistent dwelling on this one word making one of the chief beauties of this hymn.

The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.

It is a great pity that our admirable translation did not u…

You Lord shall preserve them from all evil
The Word of the Lord, as the Targum. Not from the evil of affliction, tho…

We must not rely upon people and means, instruments and second causes. Shall I depend upon the strength of the hills? Upon princes and great people…