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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...
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 dege...
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...
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...
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 excur...
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...
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 int...
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...
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 t...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the solemn consideration which this Psalm suggests, of the wretched life, and more wretched death of the opposers o...
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...
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:...
Mournful Complaints. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I...
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...
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...
I am for peace, his entire attitude showed his love of peace, his willingness to maintain peace, his desire for peace; but when I speak, protesting...
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...
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.