Psalms 120:7
The Lord guards you from all evil. May the Lord guard your soul.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In Context
6The sun will not burn you by day, nor the moon by night.
8May the Lord guard your entrance and your exit, from this time forward and even forever.
Cross References
Judges 11:14And Jephthah again commissioned them, and he ordered them to say to the king of Ammon:
1 Samuel 26:2And Saul rose up, and he descended into the desert of Ziph, and with him three thousand elect men of Israel, so that he might seek David in the desert of Ziph.
Psalms 34:14Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.
Matthew 5:9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Ephesians 2:14For he is our peace. He made the two into one, by dissolving the intermediate wall of separation, of opposition, by his flesh,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 120:6-7
Mournful Complaints. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. The psalmist here complains of the bad neighbourhood into which he was driven; and some apply the two foregoing verses to this: "What shall the deceitful tongue give, what shall it do to those that lie open to it? What shall a man get by living among such malicious deceitful men? Nothing but sharp arrows and coals… Read the whole commentary →