Psalm 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! Religious people are sometimes forced by the necessity of their lives to associate with those who are worldly and irreligious. "Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech, and to have my habitstion among the tents of Kedar." How shall those who have to dwell in the tents of ungodliness keep their souls from being contaminated by bad examples? The following anecdote furnishes a useful hint. A certain nobleman, we are told, was very anxious to see the model from whom Guido painted his lovely female faces. Guido placed his colour-grinder, a big coarse man, in an attitude, and then drew a beautiful Magdalen. "My dear Count," he said, "the beautiful and pure ideal must be in the mind, and then it is no matter what the model is." He in whose heart and mind is enshrined the beautiful and pure idea of Christ has a model after which to shape his life, and then it is no matter about other models. (Quiver.) Parallel Verses KJV: Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!WEB: Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! |
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