With regard to Psalm 120, the author and circumstances are unknown, although it seems as if the worshiper lives at a distance among unbelieving people.
I. Petition (120:1-2);
II. Indictment (120-3-4);
III. Lament (120:5-7).
Almost all these psalms (15 or 17), are “Songs of Ascent” (Psalms 120-134), which the Jewish pilgrims sang on their way up to Jerusalem (about 2,700 feet in elevation), on 3 prescribed annual occasions.
These feasts included:
(1) Unleavened Bread;
(2) Weeks/Pentecost/Harvest; and
(3) Ingathering/Tabernacles/Booths.
Psalm 120:1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and He heard
Psalm 120:6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
Psalm 120:7 I [am for] peace: but when I speak, they [are] for war.
Of a peaceable disposition, devoted to peace.
Love it, seek and pursue it, as every good man does, who is called to it, and in whose heart it does rule."
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