Psalms 120:1-7
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.... [ Continue Reading ]
A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.... [ Continue Reading ]
'Sharp arrows of a mighty man, with glowing coals of broom,' i.e. burning charcoal made of broom. Both expressions are figures for divine judgments: cp. Psalms 140:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
MESECH] i.e. the Moschi, a tribe dwelling near the Euxine Sea: cp. Genesis 10:2, also Herodotus 3.94. KEDAR] tribes of N. Arabia famous for their black tents: cp. Song of Solomon 1:5. Here the two names are probably taken as typical examples of the wild and inhospitable peoples among whom many of th... [ Continue Reading ]
LONG] the emphatic word 'all too long.' Turbulent tribes fond of war surround the writer. These Pss. are similar in thought, style, and language. Each bears the heading A SONG OF DEGREES, RV 'A Song of Ascents.' Scholars now agree for the most part in interpreting this title 'A Song of Pilgrimages'... [ Continue Reading ]