Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The consoling truth must be repeated: it is too rich to be dismissed in a single line. It were well if we always imitated the sweet singer, and would dwell a little upon a choice doctrine, sucking the honey from it.
Satan whispers to us when affliction lingers and heaven seems silent: curse God and die. But God has made His promises like safe harbors scattered across every coast and condition. His own eyes keep sentinel over the sincere; He does not send servants to watch, but watches Himself with a mother's immediacy.
AI summary
Commenting on Ephesians 6:10-20
The Lord is thy keeper,.... This explains more fully who it is that keeps Israel and particular believers, and confirms the same; not a creature, but the Lord; the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, in Psa 121:7, Christ, the Word and Wisdom of God; who is the keeper of his people by the designation of his Father, who has put them into his...