Psalm 120:5
New International Version
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

New Living Translation
How I suffer in far-off Meshech. It pains me to live in distant Kedar.

English Standard Version
Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Berean Standard Bible
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

King James Bible
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

New King James Version
Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

New American Standard Bible
Woe to me, for I reside in Meshech, For I have settled among the tents of Kedar!

NASB 1995
Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech, For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

NASB 1977
Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech, For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Legacy Standard Bible
Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech, For I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Amplified Bible
Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech, and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!

Christian Standard Bible
What misery that I have stayed in Meshech, that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What misery that I have stayed in Meshech, that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

American Standard Version
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Woe to me, for my pilgrimage is long and I have dwelt in a tent of Qedar!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged; I have tabernacled among the tents of Kedar.

Contemporary English Version
But I must live as a foreigner among the people of Meshech and in the tents of Kedar.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of cedar:

English Revised Version
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar.

Good News Translation
Living among you is as bad as living in Meshech or among the people of Kedar.

International Standard Version
How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Woe is me, that I sojourn with Meshech, That I dwell beside the tents of Kedar!

Literal Standard Version
Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, | I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

Majority Standard Bible
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

New American Bible
Alas, I am a foreigner in Meshech, I live among the tents of Kedar!

NET Bible
How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe is me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I must live among the tents of Kedar.

New Heart English Bible
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar.

Webster's Bible Translation
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

World English Bible
Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
In My Distress I Cried to the LORD
4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree! 5Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar! 6Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.…

Cross References
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 25:13
These are the names of the sons of Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

1 Chronicles 1:5
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Song of Solomon 1:5
I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

Isaiah 21:16
For this is what the Lord says to me: "Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

Isaiah 60:7
All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

Jeremiah 2:10
Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:


Treasury of Scripture

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

woe

Jeremiah 9:2,3,6
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men…

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Micah 7:1,2
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit…

Mesech

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Ezekiel 27:13
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

the tents

Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

1 Samuel 25:1
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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(5) Mesech.--This name is generally identified with Moschi, mentioned by Herodotus (iii. 94), a tribe on the borders of Colchis and Armenia. It appears again in the prophet Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 38:3; Ezekiel 39:1. The only reason for suspecting the accuracy of this identification is the remoteness from Kedar, who were a nomad tribe of Arabia. (See Genesis 25:13; Song of Solomon 1:5.) But in the absence of any other indication of the motive for the mention of these tribes here, this very remoteness affords a sufficiently plausible one; or they may be types of savage life, selected the one from the north, and the other from the south, as poetry dictated. It is quite possible that the circumstances amid which the poet wrote made it necessary for him to veil in this way his allusion to powerful tribes, from whose violence the nation was suffering. At all events, the two concluding verses leave no doubt that some troubled state of affairs, in which the choice of courses was not easy, and affecting the whole nation. not an individual, is here presented.

Verse 5. - Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech. This is scarcely to be understood literally. Israel never "sojourned in Mesech," i.e. among the Moschi, who dwelt in Cappadocia, nor dwelt among the tents of Kedar, a people of Northern Arabia. The writer means that he dwells among hostile and barbarous people, who are to him as Kedar and Mesech. Possibly the Samaritans and Ammonites are intended. That I dwell in the tents of Kedar; rather, among the tents (see the Revised Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Woe
אֽוֹיָה־ (’ō·w·yāh-)
Interjection
Strong's 190: Lamentation, Oh!

to me
לִ֭י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I dwell
גַ֣רְתִּי (ḡar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1481: To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility

in Meshech,
מֶ֑שֶׁךְ (me·šeḵ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4902: Meshech -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land

that I live
שָׁ֝כַ֗נְתִּי (ḵan·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7931: To settle down, abide, dwell

among
עִֽם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

the tents
אָהֳלֵ֥י (’ā·ho·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 168: A tent

of Kedar!
קֵדָֽר׃ (qê·ḏār)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 6938: Kedar -- perhaps 'swarthy', a son of Ishmael, also his desc


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