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5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
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The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-7)The psalmist here complains of the bad neighbourhood into which he was driven; and some apply the Ps. 120:3 , 4 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 of juniper ,” all the mischiefs of a false and spiteful tongue, Ps. 57:4. Woe is me , says…
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