Psalms 120
120
1-2I’m in trouble. I cry to God,
desperate for an answer:
“Deliver me from the liars, God!
They smile so sweetly but lie through their teeth.”
3-4Do you know what’s next, can you see what’s coming,
all you bold-faced liars?
Pointed arrows and burning coals
will be your reward.
5-7I’m doomed to live in Meshech,
cursed with a home in Kedar,
My whole life lived camping
among quarreling neighbors.
I’m all for peace, but the minute
I tell them so, they go to war!
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Psalms 120
120
Psalm 120
A Cry for Truth and Peace
A song of ascents.
1In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.#Ps 18:6; Jnh 2:2
2“Lord, rescue me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”#Pr 12:22
3What will he give you,
and what will he do to you,
you deceitful tongue?#Zph 3:13
4A warrior’s sharp arrows
with burning charcoal!#120:4 Lit with coals of the broom bush#Pr 25:18,22
5What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,#120:5 = a people far to the north of Palestine#Ezk 27:13
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!#120:5 = a nomadic people of the desert to the southeast#Sg 1:5; Ezk 27:21
6I have dwelt too long
with those who hate peace.#Ps 35:20
7I am for peace; but when I speak,
they are for war.#Ps 109:4
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