Psalms 120

1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

1I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

1In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.

2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

2My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

2Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, Andfrom a deceitful tongue.

3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

3May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

3What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?

4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

4Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

4Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

5Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

5The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

6Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

6The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

6My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

7I <FI>am<Fi> peace, and when I speak they <FI>are<Fi> for war!

7The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

7I amforpeace: But when I speak, they are for war.

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8May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

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