Standing Guard
To "keep watch" implies there will be continual action in observing - more or less as a sentinel or protector over someone or something. If you have ever been told to "keep watch" you know just how difficult this is - for "continual" action of any sort on our part is pretty doggone difficult. Why? We are dis-tractable creatures. We find more excuses for diverting our attention away from the task at hand. In the sense we are thinking of in our illustration, the word implies this watchfulness which is without break in attentiveness. In the way we think about "keeping watch", we think means a frequent "revisit" to the subject at hand, but not this brooding oversight which never, never takes an eye off the subject. Both definitions of "continual" would be entirely accurate - one suggestive of human ability, the other of divine! Keep watch over me and keep me out of trouble; d on’t let me down when I run to you. Use all ...