Psalm 121:1
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Cross-reference
Psalm 123:1 uses the identical phrase 'I lift up my eyes' but directly to God in heaven, revealing the same posture of looking upward for help.
Psalm 25:15 says 'my eyes are ever on the Lord,' similar to the psalmist lifting eyes to hills then to God.
Jeremiah 3:23 explicitly says hills are deceitful and help comes only from God—echoing the psalmist's shift from looking to hills to trusting God.
1 Kings 20:23 shows pagans mistakenly attributing God's power to hills, contrasting with the psalmist's true source of help.
Ezekiel 18:6 condemns looking to idols at mountain shrines, contrasting with the psalmist's godly looking to hills.
In 2 Chronicles 20:12, Jehoshaphat declares his eyes are on God, paralleling the psalmist's act of looking up for help.
Daniel 4:34 describes Nebuchadnezzar raising his eyes to heaven, similar to the psalmist's gesture of looking up.
In Luke 9:16, Jesus looks up to heaven before feeding the multitude, mirroring the psalmist's upward gaze for provision.
John 17:1 shows Jesus looking toward heaven to pray, similar to the psalmist lifting eyes for help.