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Psalm 120

Deliver Me From Lies

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This is the first of 15 'Songs of Ascent' that pilgrims sang walking up to Jerusalem. The writer is far from home, surrounded by people who lie and want war. He longs for peace but finds himself among people who love conflict.

  1. 1In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
  2. 2Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
  3. 3What will He do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
  4. 4He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
  5. 5Woe to me that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
  6. 6Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
  7. 7I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB)