Re: abide with me

Gordon Hudson wrote:
"Peter Beale" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

[snip]
He was vice-captain of my house at Dulwich, and I remember one occasion when he was reading the lesson at house assembly - it was Psalm 121 in the AV, and he read it as "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My help cometh from the Lord..." The AV punctuation is "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." Clifford's interpretation was correct (our help comes from the Lord, not from the hills), as NKJV and other translations agree, but he was hauled over the coals by the housemaster.

[snip]
That interpretation of psalm 121 is also what you get in the scottish metrical version.
I was brought up signing those:

1 I to the hills will lift mine eyes,
from whence doth come mine aid.
2 My safety cometh from the Lord,
who heav'n and earth hath made.

3 Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will
he slumber that thee keeps.
4 Behold, he that keeps Israel,
he slumbers not, nor sleeps.

5 The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade
on thy right hand doth stay:
6 The moon by night thee shall not smite,
nor yet the sun by day.

7 The Lord shall keep thy soul; he shall
preserve thee from all ill.
8 Henceforth thy going out and in
God keep for ever will.

I have just been doing some more Googling, and in http://www.sach.org.uk/journal/0901p33_hughes.pdf he again refers to Psalm 121:

A former pupil of
mine, by this time a young mum in her mid 30’s,
had died of breast cancer. Her parents asked me to
share in what they were bravely determined would
be a celebration of her life. Her husband, family and
friends gathered in the Kirk of Kenmore on the
banks of Loch Tay, where she had been married.
How could we possibly celebrate when we were so
desperately sad? I had been asked to read Psalm 121
in the Authorised Version. But I had a big problem.
Like most laryngectomees, I have trouble aspirating
the letter ‘h’. I’d make a marvellous Eliza Doolittle :
‘ in ‘ertford, ‘ereford and ‘ampshire, ‘urricanes
‘ardly ‘appen’! I decided to come clean and share
with the congregation the nature of my problem –
adding that it was a source of considerable amusement
to me and to my family.
Then I launched into..
‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the ‘ills,
from whence cometh my ‘elp?
My ‘elp cometh from the Lord
Who made ‘eaven and earth…’ and so on.

Peter Beale
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