Psalms 120

Distress, Deceit, and Longing for Peace

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Overview

From a place of exile among hostile peoples, the psalmist cries to God for deliverance from lying lips, calls down divine judgment on the deceitful tongue, and closes with a solitary declaration of personal commitment to peace — opening the Songs of Ascent with the tension between alienation and the longing for home.

Passages

1–2The Cry for Deliverance from Deceit 3–4Sharp Arrows Against the Lying Tongue 5–6Exile of the Soul: Longing for Home Among the Hostile 7The Psalmist's Solitary Commitment to Peace

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Psalms 120

¹A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

²Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

³What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

⁵Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

⁷I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

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