Psalm 120:6 {119:6}
Good News Translation
I have lived too long with people who hate peace!

New Revised Standard Version
Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace.

Contemporary English Version
I have spent too much time living among people who hate peace.

New American Bible
Too long do I live among those who hate peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul hath been long a sojourner.

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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?

Psalm 120:5
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