“ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! ”
Woe is me - My lot is a sad and pitiable one, that I am compelled to live in this manner, and to be exposed thus to malignant reproaches. It is like living in Mesech or in Kedar. That I sojour...
Woe is me, that I sojourn in (e) Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of (f) Kedar! (e) These were people of Arabia, who came from Japheth, ( Genesis 10:2 ). (f) That is, of the Ishmaelites.
CXX. Prayer Against Calumniators. Here begin the Psalms of Ascents, i.e. Pss. intended to be sung by the pilgrims at the three great feasts on their way up to Jerusalem, which stood on a height....
Mesech... Kedar. Used typically of cruel and merciless peoples; as we use the terms Vandals, Goths, Philistines.
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 i...
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 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 d...
That I sojourn in Mesech, &c.— Woe is me that my sojourning is so long protracted, while I dwell in the tents of Kedar! Houb. and many other commentators. On the other hand, many learned men...
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! "Mesech" - i:e., the Moschi, in the regions of...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
Mesech. — This name is generally identified with Moschi, mentioned by Herodotus (iii. 94), a tribe on the borders of Colchis and Armenia. It appears again in the prophet Ezekiel 27:13 ; Ezekiel...
Psalms 120:1-7 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association with uncongenial and hostile neighbours. The psalmist...
Where to Find Help Psalms 120:1-7 ; Psalms 121:1-8 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of the...
The next fifteen psalms appear to have formed a book of themselves bearing the title, "The Songs of Ascents." That collection is incorporated by the editor at this point not without purpose. The tit...
Reading these words with reference to Christ, we may well suppose that the exercises of his holy soul from day to day, were great in the society of those with whom he was constrained, as the sinner's...
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 z and Scythians, a barbarous sort of people: Mesech i...
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, [that] I dwell in the tents of Kedar! Ver. 5. Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech ] That is, in Muscovio, say some; in Hetruria, say others; in Cappadocia rath...
Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar Mesech and Kedar are two sorts of people often mentioned in Scripture, and reckoned among the barbarous nations. But their na...
Mournful Complaints. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long...
Mesech and Kedar are two sorts of people, oft mentioned in Scripture, and reckoned amongst the heathen and barbarous nations. But their nurses are not here to be understood properly, (for we do n...
THE SONGS OF DEGREES Psalms 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Ascents,” “Pilgrim Psalms,” and to each of which great...
This and the fourteen psalms which follow, are entitled, “Songs of Mahaloth, or degrees.” Kimchi, and some of the rabbins say, they were so called because they were sung on the steps of the second te...
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me. The Songs of Degrees How came this and fourteen following psalms to be put together, and to receive their distinctive title? It has been s...
EXPOSITION THE SONGS OF ASCENTS . THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees," "Songs of Ascents," or "Songs of Steps." They c...
Prayer for Deliverance from Slander and Deceit. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, the reference being either to the fact that these h...
1 Samuel 25:1 ; 2 Peter 2:7 ; 2 Peter 2:8 ; Ezekiel 27:13 ; Genesis 10:2 ; Genesis 25:13 ; Isaiah 60:6 ; Isaiah 60:7 ; Jeremiah 15:10 ; Jeremiah 49:28 ; Jeremiah 49:29 ; Jeremiah 9:2 ; J...
Mesech — Mesech and Kedar are two sorts of people often mentioned in scripture, and reckoned amongst the barbarous nations. But their names are here to be understood metaphorically. And so he expla...