Psalms 120:7
I want peace, but when I talk of peace, they want war.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In Context
6I have lived for far too long among people who hate peace.
Cross References
Judges 11:14Jephthah sent messengers back to the king of the Ammonites
1 Samuel 26:2So Saul went to the Desert of Ziph along with three thousand specially-picked men from Israel to search for David there.
Psalms 34:14Reject what is evil, do what is good. Look for peace, and work to make it a reality.
Psalms 55:20As for my best friend, he attacked his friends who had no quarrel with him; he broke the promises he had made to them.
Matthew 5:9Blessed are those who work to bring peace, for they will be called children of God.
Ephesians 2:14Christ is our peace. Through his body he made the two into one, and broke down the separating wall of hostility that divided us,
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 →