George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 120:3
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)
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)
Verse Psalms 120:3. _WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE?_] Thou art worthy of the heaviest punishments....
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...
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...
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...
DONE. heaped upon: i.e. added to. Compare 1 Samuel 3:17; 1 Samuel 20:13, &c....
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...
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE? OR WHAT SHALL BE DONE UNTO THEE, THOU FALSE TONGUE? - literally, 'What shall (He, t...
120:3 tongue? (e-15) Or 'What shall the tongue of deceit give thee, what shall it add to thee?'...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We will go up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31
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...
מַה ־יִּתֵּ֣ן לְ֭ךָ וּ מַה ־יֹּסִ֥יף לָ֗ךְ
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...
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...
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...
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....
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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._...
_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...
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,...
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...
WHAT SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO THEE?: Or, what shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee? or what shall it profit thee? DONE: _ Heb._ added...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:1. Psalms 120:1 is the first of the “Songs of Ascents” ...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:3 The psalm now addresses the person who is causing the trouble. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
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...
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...
Job 27:8; Matthew 16:26; Romans 6:21...