King James Version
Psalms 121:8 in the King James Version says “The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 121 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
Psalms 121:8 · KJV
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall preserve”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
“thy going out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“from this time forth and even for”
H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“evermore”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
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