What Does Psalm 125:1 Mean in the King James?
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse links trust with security at the root: reliance on the LORD takes on the image of a mountain that cannot be dislodged.
THE MEANING
Your trust in the LORD is pictured as Mount Zion: a life that cannot be dislodged and endures through the ages. This steadiness is not something you construct by controlling your surroundings; the verse locates it in whom you trust.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that you must keep every circumstance in place to remain steady dissolves here: the verse roots lasting security in trust in the LORD.
THE ROOT
בֹּטְחִים
botḥim
GROWS FROM
בטח
To feel secure, trust, or be confident.
English can make trust sound like a private opinion, but בָּטַח (batach, to trust or feel secure) also carries the sense of finding security in someone. The mountain gives that shared meaning a visible shape: trust and being securely established belong to the same word family.
ALSO GROWS
beṭaḥ: Security or confidence.
בֶּטַח
This branch shows the security carried within the root of “trust,” linking reliance on the LORD with the verse’s image of being unshaken.
mivṭaḥ: Confidence, security, or refuge.
מִבְטָח
This branch makes the root’s sense of trust as a place of security explicit, illuminating why the verse compares the trusting person to a mountain that remains.
THE PATTERN
Trust in the LORD gives life the image of stability that endures through what can be shaken.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:THE THREAD
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Isaiah uses the same Hebrew root, בָּטַח (batach, to trust or feel secure), and connects trust with a mind stayed on God. Psalm 125 gives that reliance the visible shape of Zion: a life that remains in place.
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