when, on the contrary, persons abashed and ashamed, hopeless and helpless, cannot look up, or lift up their eyes or face to God, Ezr 9:6. Some read the words, "I will lift up mine eyes upon the hills" ; standing there and looking up to the heavens, and God in the heavens; who is the most High over all the earth, higher than the highest, and above all gods.
Others render them interrogatively, "shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills?" to the idols worshipped on hills and mountains, and pray unto them, and expect help from them? No, I will not; salvation is not to be had from them, Jer 3:23; or to the kings of the nations, as R.
Obadiah interprets it; and to powerful kingdoms and states he was in alliance with, comparable to mountains and hills, Ps 46:2? No, I will not; "it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes", Ps 118:9.
And so the following clause may be read,from whence shall my help come? not from hills and mountains; not from men, for vain is the help of man; not from kings and princes, the great men of the earth, nor from the most powerful nations; but from the Lord, as in Ps 121:2, which may be an answer to this.
Myrhh la "super montes", Vatablus, Amama; so Kimchi. ynye ava "attollerem oculos meos ad illos montes?" Junius & Tremellius; "attollamne", &c. Piscator; so Gejerus and Ainsworth.