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7I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalms 120:7

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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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