Psalms - Chapter 120

Complaint Against Slanderers

¹ A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, And He heard me.

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips [And] from a deceitful tongue.

³ What shall be given to you, Or what shall be done to you, You false tongue?

⁴ Sharp arrows of the warrior, With coals of the broom tree!

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

⁶ My soul has dwelt too long With one who hates peace.

⁷ I [am for] peace; But when I speak, they [are] for war.