The Keeper of Israel: Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from?

A pilgrim psalm. Sung while climbing toward Jerusalem. The mountains around the holy city came into view. But the question: where does help actually come from? The mountains themselves? The pagan shrines once on their heights?

My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

The answer is clear. Not the mountains but their Maker. Heaven and earth—the whole creation—came from his hand. Help comes from that hand.