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What "All Evil" Means
Commentators clarify that God's promise to "keep thee from all evil" does not mean a life free from hardship. Rather, it is a promise of protection from the ultimate, damning power of evil. Scholars explain that God preserves believers from the dominion of sin and its eternal consequences, even sanctifying or lightening the afflictions they do experience.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 121:7
18th Century
Theologian
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil — This is an advance of the thought. The psalmist had in the previous verses specified s…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 121:7–8
19th Century
Bishop
Instead of preserve, read keep, the persistent dwelling on this one word making one of the chief beauties of this hymn.
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 121:7
19th Century
Preacher
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
That is the soul of our preservation; if the life, the soul…
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John Gill
On Psalms 121:7
17th Century
Pastor
You Lord shall preserve them from all evil
The Word of the Lord, as the Targum. Not from the evil of affliction, tho…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 121:1–8
17th Century
Minister
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…