Psalms 120

Psalms 120:1

Title. A song of degrees] Of lifting up: for they did lift up their voices sometimes in singing, 2 Chron. 20. 19. or, of excellencies, 1 Chron. 17. 17. or, to be sung on the steps of the temple, on high dayes: or, at their severall stations, as they returned from Babylon.

IN my distresse I cryed unto the Lord] Psalms 118:5. Albeit, the children of God ought to rejoyce, when they are in extremity; yet it is a great grief to the flesh, to hear evill for well doing.

Psalms 120:3

What shall be given unto thee? or, what shall be done unto

thee, thou false tongue?] Or, What shall the deceitfull tongue give untothee? or, What shall it profit thee? He assured himself, that God would turn their craft to their own destruction.

done] Heb. added.

Psalms 120:4

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper] Or, It is as the sharp arrows of the mighty man with coals of juniper, Psalms 64:3.

Sharp arrows of the mighty] God will send on them piercing sorrows, Psalms 45:6. Deuteronomy 32:23. Ezekiel 5:16. Psalms 140:10.

coals of juniper] Heb. of junipers. That is, of many junipers, which will last.

Psalms 120:5

in Mesch] These were people of Arabia, which came from Japhet, Genesis 10:2.

of Kedar] Of Ishmaels posterity, Genesis 25:13. which used, to live in tents, and remove from place to place, for the pasture of the cattell, Son 1:5.

Psalms 120:7

I am for peace] Not those people, among whom he never was, but people like them for cruelty.

for peace] Or, a man of peace.