These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Shakespearean Sonnet: "The Lord's Protection" (Psalm 121)

"I lift my longing eyes unto the hills.
From there my help is coming by His Hands.
My help comes from the Lord as He best wills
for heaven and earth are made of His great plans.

"He won't permit your foot from being moved.
The One, Who keeps you, knows not slumber's rest.
Behold, He Israel's Keeper's ever proved.
He will not slumber, sleep, nor miss a test.

"The Lord's thy keeper from thy ev'ry foe.
The Lord's thy shade upon thy strongest arm.
The sun won't smite thee in the day I trow,
nor smiting moon by night to cause alarm.

"The Lord preserves from evil in thy soul,
preserving place and time to e'er be whole."

by Jay O'Toole
on July 27th, 2020