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Verse Psalms 120:6. _MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH
PEACE._] A restless, barbarous, warlike, and marauding people....
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MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE - This trouble is
no new thing. It has been long continued, and has become intolerable.
Who this was that thus gave him trouble is, of course, now un...
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PSALM 120-134
The Psalms of Degrees
Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents.
They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem
three times a year to celebra...
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CXX. PRAYER AGAINST CALUMNIATORS. Here begin the Psalms of Ascents,
_i.e._ Pss. intended to be sung by the pilgrims at the three great
feasts on their way up to Jerusalem, which stood on a height. Psa...
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HIM. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "them"....
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PSALMS 120
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Peace _versus_ War.
ANALYSIS
(See Inserted Headlines.)
(Lm.) Song of the Steps.
(A GRATEFUL KING'S MEMORIAL.)
1
Unto Jehovah in the distress that befell me
I calle...
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My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE. "Long" - i:e.,
too long. It expresses weariness of a long-continued trial. "Dwelt;"
the Hebr...
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A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by
an exile under foreign oppression....
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
PSALMS FOR CLIMBING;
PSALMS 120:134
JESUS SAID, "WE WILL GO UP TO JERUSALEM" (LUKE 18:31).
THE STORY OF PSALMS 120:134
These 15 psalms are called "Songs of As...
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רַ֭בַּת שָֽׁכְנָה ־לָּ֣הּ נַפְשִׁ֑י
עִ֝֗ם שֹׂונֵ֥א שָׁלֹֽום׃...
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Psalms 120:1
THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one
expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association with
uncongenial and hostile neighbours. The psalmist lame...
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WHERE TO FIND HELP
Psalms 120:1; Psalms 121:1
This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested
that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of
the country to...
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The next fifteen psalms appear to have formed a book of themselves
bearing the title, "The Songs of Ascents." That collection is
incorporated by the editor at this point not without purpose.
The titl...
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_Night. Neither prosperity nor adversity shall hurt thee, (St. Jerome)
or the Church. (Worthington) --- Cold is said to burn or parch up,
Genesis xxxi. 40. Justin (2) writes of the Scythians, Quanquam...
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Reading these words with reference to Christ, we may well suppose that
the exercises of his holy soul from day to day, were great in the
society of those with whom he was constrained, as the sinner's...
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6._My soul _(58) _hath long dwelt with him who hateth peace. _The
Psalmist now shows, without figure, and, so to speak, points with the
finger to those (59) whom he had before indirectly marked out by...
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We now come, Psalms 120-134, to the songs of degrees, which depict, I
doubt not, the outward circumstances of the same period, when Israel
is in the land, but the power of Gog not yet destroyed. The f...
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MY SOUL HATH LONG DWELT WITH HIM THAT HATETH PEACE. The God of peace,
against whom their carnal minds are enmity itself; Christ, the Prince
of peace, the Man, the Peace, who has made peace by the bloo...
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My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Ver. 6. _My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace_] With
Saul, that implacable tyrant, and with other barbarous and brutish
persons, skil...
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PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SLANDER AND DECEIT.
A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen
psalms designated by that name, the reference being either to the fact
that these hymn...
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5-7 It is very grievous to a good man, to be cast into, and kept in
the company of the wicked, from whom he hopes to be for ever
separated. See here the character of a good man; he is for living
peace...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 120:6 soul H5315 dwelt H7931 (H8804) long H7227 hates H8130
(H8802) peace H7965
soul - Psalms 57:4; 1 Samuel 20:30-33; Ezekiel 2:6; Matthew 10:16,
Matthew 10:36;...
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CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from the mischief designed by false
and malicious tongues.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: It is often the lot of the innocent that there are those
who carry...
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This and the fourteen psalms which follow, are entitled, “Songs of
Mahaloth, or degrees.” Kimchi, and some of the rabbins say, they
were so called because they were sung on the steps of the second
tem...
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_In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me._
THE SONGS OF DEGREES
How came this and fourteen following psalms to be put together, and to
receive their distinctive title? It has been sugge...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:1. Psalms 120:1 is the first of the
“Songs of Ascents” (Psalms 120:1). This diverse group includes
individual and corporate laments, songs of confidence, thanksgiving
hy...
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THE SONGS OF DEGREES
PSALMS 120-134
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of
Degrees,” “Songs of Ascents,” “Pilgrim Psalms,” and to each
of which great na...
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EXPOSITION
THE_ _SONGS_ _OF_ _ASCENTS_._
THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated
"Songs of Degrees," "Songs of Ascents," or "Songs of Steps." They
constitute together "a L...
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This time let's turn in our Bibles to Psalms 120:1-7 to begin our
Bible study this evening. Now you'll notice these psalms have a
heading. The psalm, "A song of degrees." The word literally is
ascents...
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1 Samuel 20:30; Ezekiel 2:6; Matthew 10:16; Matthew 10:36; Psalms
57:4; Titus 3:3...