Flight to the desert in discouragement
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The first of a series ending with Psalm 134. It seems that they were songs to be sung or chanted in ascending up to Jerusalem. |
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| 1 ¶ <<A Song of
degrees.>> In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. |
2 - Lying lips We may see David slandered by Saul. This psalm would have expressed his feelings after the death of Samuel. |
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thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty [man], with coals of juniper. |
4 - Juniper Thought to be a bush with many twigs called "broom." Arabs use it for a hot-burning charcoal. Sharp words sting and injure. |
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¶ Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech [s.b. Meshech], that I dwell
in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. |
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Meshech
... Kedar These last three verses would picture desert isolation
from Saul. It is figurative speech. Meshech was a slave trader
ez2713.
Kedar ge2513 was apparently
a nomadic trader. The tents of Kedar area also seen in so0105.
6 - Peace David didn't want war. In the broader meaning, see is2603 and ps119165. |
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