Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 121:7

“The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.”

Psalms 121:7 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 121:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 121. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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

6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 11 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 2 Timothy 4:18And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Psalms 91:9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
  • Psalms 41:2The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
  • Proverbs 12:21There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
  • Psalms 145:20The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
  • Job 5:19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
  • Psalms 34:22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
  • Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  • Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
  • Psalms 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • Romans 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.