Psalms 120:4

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; Proverbs 18:21; Proverbs 18:8; Proverbs 19:5; Proverbs 19:9; Psalms 140:11; Psalms 140:9; Psalms 52:5; Psalms 57:4; Psalms 59:7; Psalms 7:13; Revelation 21:8

Related Commentaries of Psalms 120:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

mighty . Mighty [One].
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Sharp arrows of the mighty— Sharp arrows of the mighty [ shot ] from coals of juniper. Hiller. Hierophut. 255. Hamm. "All the reward thou shalt...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

'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:...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Sharp. — Better, sharpened, whetted, as if for a purpose. Juniper. — Properly, broom. Hebrew, rothem, a plant identical with the Arabian...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 120:1-7 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association wit...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deliver my soul from lying lips From the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies; and from a deceitful tongue Which covers mischie...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Confession and Complaints. A song of degrees. 1 In my distress I c...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE SONGS OF DEGREES Psalms 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Asce...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE SONGS OF ASCENTS . THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for Deliverance from Slander and Deceit. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

⁴ Sharpb arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 120:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 120:4