Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 120:6
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace, people who were maliciously hostile and took every occasion to do him harm.
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace, people who were maliciously hostile and took every occasion to do him harm.
Verse Psalms 120:6. _MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE._] A restless, barbarous, warlike, and marauding people....
MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE - This trouble is no new thing. It has been long continued, and has become intolerable. Who this was that thus gave him trouble is, of course, now un...
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...
HIM. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "them"....
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...
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE. "Long" - i:e., too long. It expresses weariness of a long-continued trial. "Dwelt;" the Hebr...
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression....
LONG] the emphatic word 'all too long.' Turbulent tribes fond of war surround the writer. These Pss. are similar in thought, style, and language. Each bears the heading A SONG OF DEGREES, RV 'A Song o...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We will go up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31
רַ֭בַּת שָֽׁכְנָה ־לָּ֣הּ נַפְשִׁ֑י עִ֝֗ם שֹׂונֵ֥א...
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...
_Night. Neither prosperity nor adversity shall hurt thee, (St. Jerome) or the Church. (Worthington) --- Cold is said to burn or parch up, Genesis xxxi. 40. Justin (2) writes of the Scythians, Quanquam...
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...
6._My soul _(58) _hath long dwelt with him who hateth peace. _The Psalmist now shows, without figure, and, so to speak, points with the finger to those (59) whom he had before indirectly marked out by...
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...
MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE. The God of peace, against whom their carnal minds are enmity itself; Christ, the Prince of peace, the Man, the Peace, who has made peace by the bloo...
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. Ver. 6. _My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace_] With Saul, that implacable tyrant, and with other barbarous and brutish persons, skil...
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 120:6 soul H5315 dwelt H7931 (H8804) long H7227 hates H8130 (H8802) peace H7965 soul -...
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...
_My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace._ HATERS OF PEACE What an appalling picture have we hero of unreasonable and wicked men! As they love lies, so they hate peace. Is not this the ver...
_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 20:30; Ezekiel 2:6; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 10:36; Psalms 57