“ My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. ”
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace - This trouble is no new thing. It has been long continued, and has become intolerable. Who this was that thus gave him trouble is, of course, n...
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....
him. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "them".
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 m...
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace - A restless, barbarous, warlike, and marauding people.
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. "Long" - i:e., too long. It expresses weariness of a long-continued trial. "Dwelt;" the...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
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...
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 b...
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. Ver. 6. My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace ] With Saul, that implacable tyrant, and with other barbarous and brutish persons, sk...
Mournful Complaints. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long...
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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 20:30-33 ; Ezekiel 2:6 ; Matthew 10:16 ; Matthew 10:36 ; Psalms 57:4 ; Titus 3:3