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7I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
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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