PSALM 120

¹A song of ascents.

    To the LORD when I was in straits

          I called out and He answered me.

    ²LORD, save my life from lying lips,

          from a tongue of deceit.

    ³What can it give you, what can it add,

           a tongue of deceit?

    ⁴A warrior’s honed arrows

           with broom-wood coals.

    ⁵ Woe to me for I have sojourned in Meshech,

           dwelled among the tents of Kedar.

    ⁶ Long has my whole being dwelled

           among those who hate peace.

    ⁷ I am for peace, but when I speak,

           they are for war.