Psalm 120

In My Distress I Cried to the LORD

1A Song of the Ascents. To YHWH, in the distress for me, I cried out, and He answered me.

2O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lip of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit!

3What will He give to you, or what will He add to you, O tongue of deceit?

4The sharpened arrows of a mighty one, with the burning coals of broom trees!

5Woe to me for I have sojourned in Mesech; I have dwelt among the tents of Kedar!

6Too much has dwelt my soul with the one hating peace!

7I am peace, and when I speak, they are for war.