Psalms 120:7
May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: 1 The Lord shall keep thy soul. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In Context
6The sun shall not burn thee by day, 1 Neither the moon by night. 1
8The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, 1 From henceforth and even forever.
Cross References
Judges 11:14And Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon,
1 Samuel 26:2And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and with him went three thousand men chosen out of Israel, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Psalms 34:14I behaved agreeably toward them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: 1 I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance. 1
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 →