Chapter 120

A Song of Ascents.

¹In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.

He answered me.

²Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,

From a deceitful tongue.

³What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,

You deceitful tongue?

⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty,

With coals of juniper.

⁵Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,

That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶My soul has had her dwelling too long

With him who hates peace.

⁷I am for peace,

But when I speak, they are for war.