Psalms 120 YLT
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 the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.
2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
5Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.
6Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.
7I am peace, and when I speak they are for war!
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