Psalm 120

 

A song of ascents.

 

 

1                    I call on the LORD in my distress, and He answers me.

 

2                    Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

 

3                    What will He do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?

 

4                    He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.

 

5                    Woe to me that I dwell in Mesheck, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

 

6                    Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.

 

7                    I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.