Psalms 120:7
I am for peace; yet, when I speak for it, They are for war.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In Context
6Too long have I dwelt With them that hate peace!
Cross References
Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it!
Psalms 55:20They lift up their hands against their friend, And break their covenant with him.
Matthew 5:9Blessed are the peace-makers; for they will be called sons of God.
Ephesians 2:14For it is he who is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition between us, that is, the enmity;
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 →