Psalm 120

1. (0) A song of ascents: 1 (1) I called to Adonai in my distress, 1 and he answered me.

2. Rescue me, Adonai, from lips that tell lies, 2 from a tongue full of deceit.

3. What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue? 3 What more will he do to you?

4. A warrior’s sharp arrows, 4 with red-hot coals from a broom tree.

5. How wretched I am, that I’m an alien in Meshekh, 5 that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

6. I have had to live far too long 6 with those who hate peace.

7. I am all for peace; 7 but when I speak, they are for war.