Psalm 120:6 {119:6}
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My soul hath been long a sojourner.

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Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

1 Samuel 20:30-33 Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? . . .

Ezekiel 2:6 And thou, O son of man, fear not, neither be thou afraid of their words: for thou art among unbelievers and destroyers, and thou dwellest with scorpions. Fear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a provoking house.

Matthew 10:16,36 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. . . .

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Context
In My Distress I Cried to the LORD
5Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar: 6My soul hath been long a sojourner.7With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.…
Cross References
Psalm 35:20
For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

Jeremiah 9:2
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Jeremiah 9:6
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

Micah 2:8
The house of Jacob saith: Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?

Lexicon
Too long
רַ֭בַּת (rab·baṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7227: Much, many, great

have I
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

dwelt
שָֽׁכְנָה־ (šā·ḵə·nāh-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

among
עִ֝֗ם (‘im)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with

those who hate
שׂוֹנֵ֥א (śō·w·nê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8130: To hate

peace.
שָׁלֽוֹם׃ (šā·lō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace


Additional Translations
Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.My soul has long dwelled with him that hates peace.

My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

My soul has long been a sojourner;

My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace.

My soul hath long had her dwelling with him that hateth peace.

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.
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