A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
Parallel translations
- KJV I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
- BSB A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
- NKJV I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?
- NASB I will raise my eyes to the mountains; From where will my help come?
- NLT I look up to the mountains— does my help come from there?
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
- Ps 123:1A Song of Ascents. To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.
- Jer 3:23Truly in vain is help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
- Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
- Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Ps 87:1A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
- Ps 68:15–16The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.
- Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
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