Salmos 120:5-6 NVT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 120:5-7

The psalmist here complains of the bad neighbourhood into which he was driven; and some apply the Ps. 120:3, 4 to this: ?What shall the deceitful tongue give, what shall it do to those that lie open to it? What shall a man get by living among such malicious deceitful men? Nothing but sharp arrows and coals of juniper,? all the mischiefs of a false and spiteful tongue, Ps. 57:4. Woe is me, says David, that I am forced to dwell among such, that I sojourn in Mesech and Kedar. Not that David dwelt... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 120:5

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech ,.... Meshech was a son of Japheth, Genesis 10:2 ; whose posterity are thought by some to be the Muscovites F26 Davide de Pomis, Lexic. fol. 86. 1. 3. and Scythians, a barbarous sort of people: Mesech is frequently mentioned with Tubal and his brother, and with Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 38:2 ; the Targum here calls them Asiatics. Rather the Cappadocians, according to Josephus F1 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. ; and Strabo F2 Geograph. l. 12. p. 370.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 120:6

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. The God of peace, against whom their carnal minds are enmity itself; Christ, the Prince of peace, the Man, the Peace, who has made peace by the blood of his cross, whom the world hates; the sons of peace, the quiet in the land, against whom the wicked devise evil things; the Gospel of peace, which the natural man abhors as foolishness; the way of peace, pardon, and salvation by Christ, which carnal men know not, and do not approve of; and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:5

That I sojourn in Mesech - The Chaldee has it, "Wo is me that I am a stranger with the Asiatics, ( אוסאי useey ), and that I dwell in the tents of the Arabs." Calmet, who understands the Psalm as speaking of the state of the captives in Babylon and its provinces, says, "Meshec was apparently the father of the Mosquians, who dwelt in the mountains that separate Iberia from Armenia, and both from Colchis. These provinces were subjugated by Nebuchadnezzar; and it is evident from 2 Kings... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:6

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace - A restless, barbarous, warlike, and marauding people. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:5

Verse 5 5.Alas for me! that I have been a sojourner in Mesech. David complains that he was doomed to linger for a long time among a perverse people; his condition resembling that of some wretched individual who is compelled to live till he grows old in sorrowful exile. The Mesechites and Kedarenes, as is well known, were Eastern tribes; the former of which derived their original from Japhet, as Moses informs us in Genesis 10:2; and the latter from a son of Ishmael. (Genesis 25:13.) To take the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:6

Verse 6 6.My soul (58) hath long dwelt with him who hateth peace. The Psalmist now shows, without figure, and, so to speak, points with the finger to those (59) whom he had before indirectly marked out by the terms Mesech and kedar, namely, the perfidious Israelites, who had degenerated from the holy fathers, and who rather wore the mask of Israelites than were the true seed of Israel. (60) He calls them haters of peace, (61) because they wilfully, and with deliberate malice, set themselves to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

Of the title itself different explanations are given. Some regard the degrees ( ma ' aloth ) as "steps," and accept a rabbinical explanation, that the psalms were written for chanting upon fifteen steps, which led from the Court of the Women in the temple to the Court of the Men. But there is no sufficient evidence of the existence of these steps. Others, translating ma ' aloth by "ascents," suggest that they are psalms composed for the Jews to chant on their ascent from Babylon to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

The perversion of power, etc. This psalm, though "a difference of opinion exists respecting the interpretation of almost every verse and word of it ," may suggest valuable thoughts upon— I. THE PERVERSION OF POWER . It speaks of "lying lips," a "deceitful tongue," and of the "false tongue" ( Psalms 120:2 , Psalms 120:3 ). We may say that sin is perversion; it is the misdirection and abuse of our various faculties and organs; turning to a bad account all our... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

In Mesech and Kedar. This psalm is a piteous declaration of the unhappy lot of him who is surrounded by the false, the treacherous, and the cruel. They of Mesech—the Moschi of Herodotus (see Exposition)—dwelt where now the horribly bloodthirsty Kurds have their habitation, who of late years have horrified all Christendom by their barbarous atrocities inflicted on the Christian Armenians. Amid men of such sort the psalmist is complaining that he has to dwell ( Psalms 120:5 ). It is a tale... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 120:5-7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 120:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 120:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 120:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 120:1-7

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