Psalms 120:5
Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
In Context
4Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
6My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
Cross References
Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.
1 Samuel 25:1And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.
Isaiah 60:6You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 49:28About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.
Ezekiel 27:21Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 120:2-5
Confession and Complaints. 1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord , and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord , from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Here is, I. Deliverance from a false tongue obtained by prayer. David records his own experience of this. 1. He was brought into distress, into great distress, by lying lips and a deceitful tongue. There were those that… Read the whole commentary →