Psalm 121:5 “The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.”

Psalm 121:5

The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

World English Bible

The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.

Geneva Bible 1599

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shadow at thy right hand.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is thy keeper, Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand;

Young's Literal Translation

Jehovah [is] thy preserver, Jehovah [is] thy shade on thy right hand,

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.

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Cross references

“thy shade”

Isaiah 25:4 Exodus 13:21 Isaiah 32:2 Matthew 23:37 Isaiah 4:5 Isaiah 4:6

Isaiah 25:4 · BSB

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

Exodus 13:21 · BSB

And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

Isaiah 32:2 · BSB

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.

Matthew 23:37 · BSB

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Isaiah 4:5 · BSB

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

Isaiah 4:6 · BSB

a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

“upon”

Psalm 16:8 Psalm 109:31

Psalm 16:8 · BSB

I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

Psalm 109:31 · BSB

For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

Also

Psalm 91:1

Psalm 91:1 · BSB

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

6The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

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