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Verse Psalms 120:3. _WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE?_] Thou art worthy
of the heaviest punishments....
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WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE? - Margin, “What shall the deceitful
tongue give unto thee;” or, “what shall it profit thee?” Luther,
“What can the false tongue do?” Others render this, “How will
God pu...
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PSALM 120-134
The Psalms of Degrees
Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents.
They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem
three times a year to celebrat...
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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 their way up to Jerusalem, which stood on a height. Psa...
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DONE. heaped upon: i.e. added to. Compare 1 Samuel 3:17; 1 Samuel
20:13, &c....
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PSALMS 120
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Peace _versus_ War.
ANALYSIS
(See Inserted Headlines.)
(Lm.) Song of the Steps.
(A GRATEFUL KING'S MEMORIAL.)
1
Unto Jehovah in the distress that befell me
I calle...
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120:3 tongue? (e-15) Or 'What shall the tongue of deceit give thee,
what shall it add to thee?'...
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A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by
an exile under foreign oppression....
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
PSALMS FOR CLIMBING;
PSALMS 120:134
Jesus said, "We will go up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31
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WHAT SHALL...? — Literally, _What will he give to thee,_ and _what
will he add to thee, deceitful tongue_? where it is better, as in the
Authorised Version, to take the subject as indefinite, and so r...
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מַה ־יִּתֵּ֣ן לְ֭ךָ וּ מַה ־יֹּסִ֥יף
לָ֗ךְ
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Psalms 120:1
THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one
expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association with
uncongenial and hostile neighbours. The psalmist lamen...
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WHERE TO FIND HELP
Psalms 120:1; Psalms 121:1
This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested
that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of
the country to...
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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 editor at this point not without purpose.
The title...
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What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou
(c) false tongue?
(c) He assured himself that God would turn their craft to their own
destruction....
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_May. Hebrew, "he will not." Many have read in the second person, both
in the Hebrew and Septuagint, "Suffer not thy," &c. (Aquila; St.
Augustine, &c.) (Calmet)_...
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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 of false witnesses rising up against him. Psalms 35:...
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3._What shall the tongue of deceit give thee? _(50) The Prophet
aggravates the malice of his enemies by asserting that they were so
wickedly inclined as to be driven to evil speaking when they saw no...
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We now come, Psalms 120-134, to the songs of degrees, which depict, I
doubt not, the outward circumstances of the same period, when Israel
is in the land, but the power of Gog not yet destroyed. The f...
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WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE?.... Or, "what shall [it] give unto
thee?" s That is, what shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee, O my
soul? or to thee, to anyone that hears and reads this psalm? It...
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What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou
false tongue?
Ver. 3. _What shall be given unto thee? &c._] That is (as Austin
senseth it), what remedy is there for thee? _q.d._...
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_Deliver my soul from lying lips_ From the unjust censures and
malicious slanders of mine enemies; _and from a deceitful tongue_
Which covers mischievous designs under pretences of kindness. _What
sha...
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SLANDER AND DECEIT.
A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen
psalms designated by that name, the reference being either to the fact
that these hymns...
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What shall be given unto thee, by way of righteous punishment, OR WHAT
SHALL BE DONE UNTO THEE, being added to the measure of the first
punishment, THOU FALSE TONGUE? He himself gives the answer,...
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WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE?:
Or, what shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee? or what shall it
profit thee?
DONE:
_ Heb._ added...
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1-4 The psalmist was brought into great distress by a deceitful
tongue. May every good man be delivered from lying lips. They forged
false charges against him. In this distress, he sought God by ferv...
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WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE, whosoever thou art who art guilty of
these practices? He applies himself severally to the consciences of
every one of them. Or he designs Doeg or some other person in Sa...
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Psalms 120:3 given H5414 (H8799) done H3254 (H8686) false H7423 tongue
H3956
What shall - etc. or, What shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee,
or, What shall it profit t
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Psalms 120:1. _In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me._
Slander occasions distress of the most grievous kind. Those who have
felt the edge of a cruel tongue know assuredly that it is s...
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CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from the mischief designed by false
and malicious tongues.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: It is often the lot of the innocent that there are those
who carry...
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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 because they were sung on the steps of the second
tem...
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_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 to
receive their distinctive title? It has been sugge...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:1. Psalms 120:1 is the first of the
“Songs of Ascents” ...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:3 The psalm now addresses the person who is
causing the trouble.
⇐ ⇔...
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THE SONGS OF DEGREES
PSALMS 120-134
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of
Degrees,” “Songs of Ascents,” “Pilgrim Psalms,” and to each
of which great na...
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EXPOSITION
THE_ _SONGS_ _OF_ _ASCENTS_._
THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated
"Songs of Degrees," "Songs of Ascents," or "Songs of Steps." They
constitute together "a Li...
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This time let's turn in our Bibles to Psalms 120:1-7 to begin our
Bible study this evening. Now you'll notice these psalms have a
heading. The psalm, "A song of degrees." The word literally is
ascents...
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Job 27:8; Matthew 16:26; Romans 6:21...