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[a]The Lord is your guardian;
    the Lord is your shade
    at your right hand.(A)
By day the sun will not strike you,
    nor the moon by night.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 121:5–6 The image of shade, a symbol of protection, is apt: God as shade protects from the harmful effects that ancients believed were caused by the sun and moon.

The Lord watches over(A) you—
    the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
the sun(B) will not harm you by day,
    nor the moon by night.

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