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I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills

Psalms 121:6

In 11 translations

BSB
The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
KJV
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
WEB
The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
ASV
The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.
LSV
By day the sun does not strike you, || Nor the moon by night.
YLT
By day the sun doth not smite thee, Nor the moon by night.
DBY
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
DRC120:6
The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.
GNV
The sunne shall not smite thee by day, nor the moone by night.
JPS
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
LXXE120:6
The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יוֹמָ֗ם הַשֶּׁ֥מֶשׁ לֹֽא־יַכֶּ֗כָּה וְיָרֵ֥חַ בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃
LXX-Br120:6
Ἡμέρας ὁ ἥλιος οὐ συγκαύσει σε, οὐδὲ ἡ σελήνη τὴν νύκτα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 7:16‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
  • Isaiah 49:10They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
  • Psalms 91:5–10You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon. Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten…
  • Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 120:6 in some Bibles
  • 121:6 in most Bibles

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