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Psalm 120:5-7
Contemporary English Version

5 But I must live as a foreigner
among the people of Meshech
    and in the tents of Kedar.[a]
6 I have spent too much time
living among people
    who hate peace.
7 I am in favor of peace,
but when I speak of it,
    all they want is war.

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  1. 120.5 Meshech … Kedar: Meshech was a country near the Black Sea, and Kedar was a tribe of the Syrian desert.
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