“ I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. ”
I am for peace - Margin, “A man of peace.” Literally, “I (am) peace.” It is my nature. I desire to live in peace. I strive to do so. I do nothing to provoke a quarrel. I would do anything which w...
I [am for] (g) peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war. (g) He declares what he means by Meshech and Kedar, that is, the Israelites who had degenerated from their godly fathers, and hated and co...
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....
I . I [even I]; or,. [am all] peace (emphatic). speak . speak [of peace]. See note on Psalms 109:4 . they are for war. The reference is to 2 Kings 18:19 ; 2 Chronicles 32:2 . Isaiah 36:5 .
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. I am for peace - We love to be quiet and peaceable; but they are continually engaged in excursions of rapine and plunder. It is evident that th...
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. I (am for) peace: but when I speak, they are for war - Hebrew, 'I peace;' my very nature is peace. So Psalms 109:4 , 'I prayer.' But when...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
I am for peace. — For the pregnant, “I peace,” see Note, Psalms 109:3 . Both pronouns, I and they, are emphatic. No doubt these verses are intended to indicate the nature of the malicious spee...
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...
I [am for] peace ,.... Am wholly peace; a man of peace, as Aben Ezra; of a peaceable disposition, devoted to peace; love it, seek and pursue it, as every good man does, who is called to it, and in w...
I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war. Ver. 7. I am for peace ] Heb. I am peace, or peaceable, as far as is possible, Romans 12:18 ; this was David's motto, and must be every man...
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 24:9-11 ; 1 Samuel 26:2-4 ; 2 Samuel 20:19 ; Ephesians 2:14-17 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; Matthew 5:9 ; Psalms 34:14 ; Psalms 35:20 ; Psalms 55:20 ; Romans 12:18