Summary of Psalms 120
The first of the 'songs of ascents,' sung by pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. In distress the psalmist cried to the LORD and was heard. He asks to be delivered from lying lips and deceitful tongues. He has lived too long among people who hate peace: 'I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.'
Key verse
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Psalms 120: full text (King James Version)
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
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