Psalms 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
What it says
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people now and forevermore.
What it is doing
This verse turns the city's geography into an image of divine protection.
In context
1A song of ascents. 2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, 3For the scepter of the wicked will not rest 4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, 5But those who turn to crooked ways