Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 7 Psalms 119:33–130

Psalm 120 with Augustine – A Pilgrim’s Cry for Peace Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek (v. 5). My journey has departed far from you; my pilgrimage has become a far one. I have not yet reached that country where I will someday live with no wicked person to threaten me. I have not yet reached that company of angels, where I will fear no offence. But why am I not there yet? Because my journey is a pilgrimage. And when is it far off? Sometimes, when people go abroad, they live among better people than they would perhaps live with in their own country. But it is not like this when we go far from that heavenly Jerusalem. For a person changes their country, and this foreign sojourn is sometimes good for them. In travelling they find faithful friends whom they could not find in their own country. They had enemies, so they were driven from their country; and when they travelled, they found what they did not have at home. (By this I do not mean

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