Psalms 120:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 120:5

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

WEB

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

YLT

Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

DBT

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

27 verses on the floor

Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Isaiah 21:16
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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A residence in these remote lands pictures his miserable condition. 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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

David was herein a type of Christ, who was distressed by lying lips and deceitful tongues. In this distress he had recourse to God by faithful and fervent prayer: I cried unto the Lord.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Mesech - Mesech and Kedar are two sorts of people often mentioned in scripture, and reckoned amongst the barbarous nations. But their names are here to be understood metaphorically.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Words3

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H148197× in canon H7931129× in canon H168345× in canon

The quotation web

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 120:5EZE 27:13 ISA 66:19
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 120:5EZE 27:13 GEN 10:2
PSA 120:5GEN 10:2 EZE 38:2
PSA 120:5SNG 1:5 LUK 15:22
PSA 120:5SNG 1:5 SNG 2:14
PSA 120:5SNG 1:5 SNG 5:16
PSA 120:5SNG 1:5 2CO 5:21
PSA 120:5SNG 1:5 SNG 5:8

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

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