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Psalm 120 · Book Five
A song of ascents.
The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible
Song of Ascents
About this psalm
The first of the fifteen songs of ascents, sung by pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. It starts a long way off, among people who hate peace, in tents far from home. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips. The climb begins in the worst possible place, which is probably the point of putting it first.
Read it when you are a long way from where you should be.
One verse at a time, slowly
1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!6My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.7I am for peace:but when I speak, they are for war.
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