Psalms 120:6
Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.
BSB
ASV
My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.
KJV
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
With those who hated peace I was peaceable; when I spoke to them, they attacked me without cause. Unhappy we, we cannot restrain our tongue, we cannot help slandering the brethren. If someone offends us, we as it were present a peaceful face, but for the rest the heart has poison. We are called monks, and although we are not such as we ought to be, yet we are so called. At the third hour we pray, at the sixth hour we pray, at the ninth, we hold the lamp-lighting, at midnight we rise, then at cockcrow we pray.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 10:16Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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Matthew 10:36A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
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For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
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Ezekiel 2:6But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of…
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Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
