Psalms 120:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 120

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⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Psalms 120:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 25:13
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,
Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Micah 7:1-2
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. …

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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 Dav…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. A residence in these remote lands pictures his miserable condition.