Psalms 120 – Deliver Me from Lying Lips
The first Song of degrees, crying out against deceit and craving a peace others reject.
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.
A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
Wo to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.
Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.
I `am' peace, and when I speak they `are' for war!