Psalm 120
Geneva Bible 1599
Chapter overview
Psalm 120 begins the pilgrimage songs with distress over lying lips and destructive speech. Living far from peace, the speaker longs for truth and reconciliation among neighbors who answer peaceful intentions with war.
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1A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lord in my trouble, and hee heard me.
2Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.
3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?
4It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.
5Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar.
6My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.
Geneva Bible 1599 — Public Domain. Where these translations come from.