Psalms 120 – Deliver Me from Lying Lips

The first Song of degrees, crying out against deceit and craving a peace others reject.

Psalms 120 – A Cry for Deliverance from Lies

Coming after the long meditation of Psalms 119, this first of the Songs of degrees cries out against 'lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue' troubling the psalmist among hostile neighbors.


(上行(或作登階,下同)之詩。)我 在急難中 求告 耶和華,他就應允我。

耶和華啊,求你救 我 脫離說謊 的嘴唇 和詭詐 的舌頭!

詭詐 的舌頭啊,要給 你 甚麼呢?要拿甚麼 加 給你呢?

就是勇士 的利 箭 和 羅騰木(小樹名,松類)的炭火。

我寄居 在米設,住 在基達 帳棚 之中,有禍了!

我 與 那恨惡 和睦 的人許久 同住。

我 願和睦,但 我發言,他們就要 爭戰。

The closing complaint, 'I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war,' stands in contrast to the blessing on peacemakers in <a href="/bible/chiun/matthew/chapter-5/9">Matthew 5:9</a>, before the ascent continues in <a href="/bible/chiun/psalms/chapter-121">Psalms 121</a>.