psalm 121 reverse parallelism

Hebrew paragraph divisions:

1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?
2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. {p}

Reverse parallelism:

1a.1) Psa 121:1-2, The LORD my helper, who made heaven + earth;

1a.2) Psa 121:3a, He will not allow your foot to be moved;

1b) Psa 121:3b, He who keeps you will not slumber;

2b) Psa 121:4, Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep;

2a.1) Psa 121:5-6, The LORD your keeper/ your shade at your right hand;

2a.2) Psa 121:7-8 {p} The LORD shall preserve you from all evil from this time forth + forevermore.

Preserve : to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction; to protect (implies the use of a covering as a bar to the admission or impact of what may attack or injure); to keep alive, intact, or free from decay; to maintain (to uphold as true, right, just, or reasonable, and implies firmness of conviction). Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language

If the LORD shall preserve us from all evil, then why do bad things happen? Did the Word of God lie? No, because the evil we face is a temporary factor in our lives, and not our final outcome. He preserves us through it, so that its ultimate designs are not realized. ♥