Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! "Mesech" - i:e., the Moschi, in the regions of Iberia, Armenia, and Colchis. "Kedar" is a people of Arabis. As the Psalmist and his people could not be at once in two places so widely apart, the sense can only be figurative. I dwell among people lawless and fierce is those of Mesech or Kedar. He explains it so in Psalms 120:6 - "him (the foe) that hateth peace." Mesach was the chief vassal of Gog, the ideal representative of the pagan barbarian world. The Arabs, and so the Kedarenes, love strife, like their first father, Ishmael, of whom the Angel of the Lord prophesied, "He will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him" (Genesis 16:12).