Psalms 120:6
The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
In Context
5The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.
7May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:30And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, Thou son of + 20:30 Lit. deserting in a military sense.traitorous damsels! for do I not know that thou art an accomplice with the son of Jessæ to thy shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
Ezekiel 2:6And thou, son of man, fear them not, nor be dismayed at their face; (for they will madden and will rise up against thee round about, and thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions): be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their countenance, for it is a provoking house.
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 →