PSALM CXX. (LEVAVI OCULOS.)
God is the keeper of his servants.
Keepeth. Hebrew also, "shall or may." The words of a prophet are always true, and the tenses are varied at pleasure by St. Jerome, &c. (Berthier) --- Soul, or spiritual life. (Worthington) (1 Peter i. 4.)
Verse Psalms 120:7. _I_ AM FOR _PEACE_] We love to be quiet and peaceable; but they are continually engaged in excursions of rapine and plunder. It is evident that the psalmist refers to a people lik...
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 to provoke a quarrel. I would do anything which would...
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...
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 Kings 18:19; 2 Chronicles 32:2.
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...
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 , 'I prayer.' But when I speak to recommen...
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
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 intended to indicate the nature of the malicious speeches...
אֲֽנִי ־שָׁ֭לֹום וְ כִ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר הֵ֝֗מָּה ל
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...
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 degenerated from their godly fathers, and hated and con...
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 those with whom he was constrained, as the sinner's...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, over the solemn consideration which this Psalm suggests, of the wretched life, and more wretched death of the opposers of Christ and his gospel. In the traitor Judas we beh...
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...
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 every good man does, who is called to it, and in whos...
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 12:18; this was David's motto, and must be every man's s...
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 this readiness to live at peace with all men, if pos...
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...
FOR PEACE: Or, a man of peace...
5-7 It is very grievous to a good man, to be cast into, and kept in the company of the wicked, from whom he hopes to be for ever separated. See here the character of a good man; he is for living peace...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 120:7 peace H7965 speak H1696 (H8762) war H4421 for peace - or, a man of peace, Psalms 34:14,...
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 120:5 The psalmist reflects on the larger situation. The people among whom he dwells are Gentiles, who do not know God’s word. The ideal Israelite exile is FOR PEACE, seeking it f...
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...
1 Samuel 24:9; 1 Samuel 26:2; 2 Samuel 20:19; Ephesians 2:14;...