Psalms 120

A Cry for Truth and Peace

¹In my distress I called to the Lord ,

and He answered me.

²“Lord , deliver me from lying lips

and a deceitful tongue.”

³What will He give you,

and what will He do to you,

you deceitful tongue?

⁴A warrior’s sharp arrows

with burning charcoal!

⁵What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,[#= a people far to the north of Palestine; #Ezk 27:13]

that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!

⁶I have lived too long

with those who hate peace.

⁷I am for peace; but when I speak,

they are for war.