I Lift Up My Eyes to the Hills – Psalm 121

As to the hills the psalmist is lifting his eyes towards, the commentators are united:

The hills are those on which Jerusalem is built….This gaze of hope does not absolutely decide the standpoint of the poet. He might have been like Ezekiel (Ezekiel 6:2) when bidden to turn “towards the mountains of Israel” in the distant plain of Mesopotamia; or he may have been close on the end of the pilgrim journey, and actually under the sacred hills. But wherever he stands, this question is not one of doubt; he knows…that help will come from God’s holy hill “out of Zion.” [Ellicott]

The poet looks up to the mountains, the mountains of his native land, the holy mountains when he longingly asks: whence will my help come? and to this question his longing desire itself returns the answer, that his help comes from no other quarter than from Jahve, the Maker of heaven and earth, from Him who sits enthroned behind and upon these mountains, whose helpful power reaches to the remotest ends and corners of His creation, and with whom is help, i.e., both the willingness and the power to help, so that therefore help comes from nowhere but from Him alone. [Keil and Delitzsch]

A Song of Ascents.   

I lift up my eyes to the hills.   From where does my help come?  My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.  Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.  The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.  The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.  (Psalm 121 ESV)

As they journeyed up to Jerusalem (the ascent) the pilgrims recognized that dangers lurked.  But they also recognized that the Creator who has all power was helping them.  He will not let us stumble into danger.  He is ever watchful as our guardian to protect us from every evil and in every situation we might face.