Psalm 120

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1} A song of ascents.

In my distress I called to the Lord,
and He answered me.^(A)

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“Lord, deliver me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”^(B)

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What will He give you,
and what will He do to you,
you deceitful tongue?^(C)

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A warrior’s sharp arrows
with burning charcoal!^(a)^(D)

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What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,^(b)^(E)
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!^(c)^(F)

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I have lived too long
with those who hate peace.^(G)

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I am for peace; but when I speak,
they are for war.^(H)

a. Psalm 120:4: Lit with coals of the broom bush

b. Psalm 120:5: a people far to the north of Palestine

c. Psalm 120:5: a nomadic people of the desert to the southeast

A. Psalm 120:1: Psalm 18:6; Jonah 2:2

B. Psalm 120:2: Proverbs 12:22

C. Psalm 120:3: Zephaniah 3:13

D. Psalm 120:4: Proverbs 25:18; Proverbs 25:22

E. Psalm 120:5: Ezekiel 27:13

F. Psalm 120:5: Ezekiel 27:21

G. Psalm 120:6: Psalm 35:20

H. Psalm 120:7: Psalm 109:4