mighty. Mighty [One].
Sharp arrows of the mighty - This is an answer to the question in Psalms 120:3 . The consequence - the effect - of such a use of the tongue must...
(d) Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (d) He shows that there is nothing so sharp to pierce, nor so hot to set on fire, as a slande...
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 th...
4. The arrows of a strong man sharpened, with coals of juniper. Here the Psalmist amplifies in another way the malice of such as distress th...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Sharp arrows - The Chaldee has, "The strong, sharp arrows are like lightning from above, with coal...
Sharp arrows of the mighty— Sharp arrows of the mighty [ shot ] from coals of juniper. Hiller. Hierophut. 255. Hamm. "All the reward thou shalt...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. The "sharp arrows of the mighty" are th...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
'Sharp arrows of a mighty man, with glowing coals of broom,' i.e. burning charcoal made of broom. Both expressions are figures for divine judgments:...
Sharp. — Better, sharpened, whetted, as if for a purpose. Juniper. — Properly, broom. Hebrew, rothem, a plant identical with the Arabian...
Psalms 120:1-7 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association wit...
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-s...
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...
If we read another Psalm to this effect, and which hath been always considered as referring to Jesus, we shall find how the holy sufferer complains o...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Some think these words describe lying lips, and a false tongue; which are like arrows, sharp one...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Ver. 4. Sharp arrows of the mighty ] Arrows sharp, and shot with force. A false tongue is liken...
Deliver my soul from lying lips From the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies; and from a deceitful tongue Which covers mischie...
Confession and Complaints. A song of degrees. 1 In my distress I c...
So this verse contains an answer to the question Psa 120 3 , and declares the slanderer's recompence; which is the wrath and vengeance of the mighty...
THE SONGS OF DEGREES Psalms 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Asce...
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 be...
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...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. “Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper” Thy arrows are not pointless, and thou a...
EXPOSITION THE SONGS OF ASCENTS . THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees...
Prayer for Deliverance from Slander and Deceit. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, t...
Sharp arrows of the mighty, inflictions of a most destructive kind, with coals of juniper, the charcoal made of the wood of the broom-tree retainin...
Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; James 3:5-8 ; Proverbs 11:12 ; Proverbs 11:18 ; Proverbs 11:9 ; Proverbs 12:22 ; Proverbs 16:27 ; Pr...
Arrows — The wrath and vengeance of the mighty God, which in scripture is often compared to arrows, and here to coals of juniper, which burn very f...
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