Psalms 120

To see God's sabbaths broken, his truths adulterated, his glory eclipsed, is that which wounds a godly heart. This made David cry out (Psalm 120:5), Woe is me that I dwell in Mesech, that I sojourn in the tents of Kedar. Kedar was Arabia, where were Ishmael's posterity.

9. We shall in the kingdom of heaven be freed from all society with the wicked. Here we are forced sometimes to be in their company (Psalm 120:5): "Woe is me that I dwell in Mesech, and sojourn in the tents of Kedar." Kedar was Ishmael's son, whose children dwelt in Arabia, a pr…

When Elijah saw idolatry spread over all Israel, he went apart into the wilderness and in grief desired to die. And David cried out: Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell in Meshech and to have my habitation in the tents of Kedar — Psalm 120:5. And just Lot must have his righ…

Basil on Psalm 114: Eternal rest is reserved for them, which have striven lawfully in this life: not for the merits of their doings, but upon the grace of the most bountiful God, in which they trusted. Augustine on Psalm 120: He crowns you, because he crowns his own gifts, not y…

My brethren, these are the things that have spoiled Christian fellowship and made it become a dry and sapless thing — so that many Christians are even weary of it and are ready to say with the prophet — Jeremiah 9:2: 'O that I had a cottage in the wilderness, that I might leave…

The Prophet says that in the kingdom of Christ, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie with the kid, etc., that is, men of fierce, savage, and wolfish natures, shall be so changed by grace, as that they shall live peaceably and lovingly together. Thirdly, with…

Certainly necessity should hardly induce him, much less choice lead him to be a servant in a family, where the Devil is the master of it. The Psalmist sorely complains, that he was forced to take up his abode among wicked and ungodly men (Psalm 120:5): Woe is me that I sojourn i…

This is quietness. Our Savior has pronounced the blessing of adoption upon the peace-makers (Matthew 5:9), [non-Latin text], those that are for peace, as David professes himself to be (Psalm 120:7), in opposition (such an opposition as meekness is capable of) to those that delig…

1. In case of Scattering. Gods people are scattered up and down in the World: and, which is worst, these Jewels lye among rubbish, they dwell among the Wicked, Psalm 120:5. Wo is me that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar.

3 Good men witness against sin, by withdrawing from sinners, and their society; to have no more to do with them than needs must. This separation from their persons is only because of their sins; if good men be constrained to converse with them, yet they cry out, as (Psalm 120:5-…

(John 18:23) If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if I have spoken well, why do you strike me? (Psalm 120:2) Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Conscia mens recti famae mendacia ridet.

We are to have peace with their persons as they are made in God's image, but to have war with their sins as they have made themselves in the devil's image. David was for peace (Psalm 120:7) but he would not sit upon the ale-bench with sinners (Psalm 26:4-5). Grace teaches good n…

Indeed, to a natural man sin is not offensive, for being dead in sin, he is not sensible of the body of death: but where there is a vital principle, there is no greater annoyance than the body of death. Insomuch that the pious soul often cries out, as David, 'Woe is me, that I d…

Then said Mercy, This is much like to the saying of the Beloved: “What shall be given to you, or what shall be done to you, you false tongue? Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (Psalms 120:3-4). So they went on till they came within sight of the lions.