Psalms 120:7

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 I speak to recommend peace they breathe only war. They wrest my words of peace into occasion for war.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 120:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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...
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

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the solemn consideration which this Psalm suggests, of the wretched life, and more wretched death of the opposers o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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:...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
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 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

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 120:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes 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

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 120:7