Psalms 120:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 120

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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

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Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Psalms 109:4
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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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. 7)

6-7. While those who surrounded him were maliciously hostile, he was disposed to peace. This Psalm may well begin such a series as this, as a contrast to the promised joys of God’s worship.