Psalms 120:7
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In Context
6Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.
8I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. BETH
Cross References
Judges 11:14And Jephte again sent word by them, and commanded them to say to the king of Ammon:
1 Samuel 26:2And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Psalms 34:14Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 55:20He shall redeem my soul in peace from them that draw near to me: for among many they were with me.
Matthew 5:9Blesses are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God.
Ephesians 2:14For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in 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 →