Friday, June 19, 2009

Ps. 120: Ascents

Psalm 120:7 "I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war."

This sounds like a sleeping giant here. Someone who knows there is great power behind him because he trusts in God. Softspoken, but not afraid. Not someone to be messed with. He knows the wicked go unpunished, and warns them of their doom.

I'm not sure what it means to dwell in the tents of Kedar in Meshech, but apparently they hate peace. They are uninterested in unity. I had to look back on what I read, but Meshech was a descendant of Japheth, and Kedar a son of Ishmael. That takes us back to Genesis 25, and the prophecy that seemed to doom Ishmael's race.

This seems to continue that prophecy.

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