CHAPTER 120

AUTHOR UNKNOWN: PRAYER OF DISTRESS

¹In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and He heard me. (In the great One Hundred Nineteenth Psalm, with its twenty-two Stanzas, the Messiah sang of the Lamp [the Bible] that lightens the celestial way. In these next fifteen Psalms, which are called the Songs of Degrees or Ascents, He will sing of that way, for it is an ascending way it leads up to God.)

²Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. (The slanderous tongues of the Pharisees attested to the innocency of the Messiah.)

³What shall be given unto you? or what shall be done unto you, you false tongue? (The sense of this Verse is that the Lord called the Pharisees a false tongue.)

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. (The idea is, the tongues of the Scribes and Pharisees would burn in the fires of Hell.)

⁵Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! (Mesech and Kedar were sons of Ishmael. They represent the Scribes and Pharisees, who were indeed of the seed of Abraham, but born after the flesh.)

⁶My soul has long dwelt with him who hates peace. (The Lords Earthly life was a short one, yet it was so filled with sorrows that, measured by suffering, it could truthfully be recorded as a long one.)

⁷I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war. (The True Messiah was Peace Personified and was rejected by Israel. The false messiah will promise peace but will bring war.)