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Psalm 121:5
The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
4Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.
6The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
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Shade at your right hand portrays God's care as close enough to shelter you, a comfort when danger feels near.
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Psalm 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.Both psalms use shade or shadow to describe the shelter found in God's presence.
Psalm 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.Both place the LORD at the right hand, linking his nearness with protection and stability.
Isaiah 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the …Both describe the LORD as shade, with Isaiah naming the heat and distress from which he shelters the needy.
Exodus 13:21The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by …Both portray the LORD's presence close to his people, through shade in the psalm and guiding cloud and fire in Exodus.
Isaiah 4:5–6The LORD will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for …Shade in the psalm and the canopy over Zion both picture shelter that comes from the LORD.
Psalm 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.Both describe God's protection at the right hand, with Psalm 109 naming the needy person threatened by accusers.
Isaiah 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.Both use shade to picture shelter, with the psalm naming the LORD and Isaiah describing a man as a protective refuge.
Matthew 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen …Both use images of shelter: the LORD's shade in the psalm and the hen's wings in Jesus' lament over Jerusalem.
Numbers 14:9Only don’t rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is …Both ground confidence in the LORD's presence: he is the keeper in the psalm and Israel's help against feared enemies.
2 Chronicles 6:20that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name, to listen to the prayer …Both concern God's attentive care, expressed as keeping in the psalm and sought through open eyes and heard prayer in Chronicles.
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.Both name God as the one who keeps his people, with Samuel's passage contrasting his keeping with human strength.
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Both sentences name YHWH as the source of your care. The keeper who guards you is also the shade at your right hand.
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