Psalms 120 GNV
Summary: The first of the fifteen "Songs of Ascents" (120-134), likely sung by pilgrims traveling up to Jerusalem for festivals, opening with a cry of distress: "In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me" (v. 1), specifically from "lying lips" and "a deceitful tongue" (v. 2). The psalmist laments living among hostile, warmongering neighbors — "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar" (v. 5) — foreign or distant peoples used as a figure for surrounding hostility. It closes with the contrast "I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war" (v. 7).
1A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lord in my trouble, and hee heard me.
2Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.
3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?
4It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.
5Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.
6My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.
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