Psalms

Psalm 120

תהילים
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1A song of ascents.In my distress I called to the LORDand He answered me.

2O LORD, save me from treacherous lips,from a deceitful tongue!

3What can you profit,what can you gain,O deceitful tongue?

4A warrior’s sharp arrows,with hot coals of broom-wood.

5Woe is me, that I live with Meshech,that I dwell among the clans of Kedar.

6Too long have I dwelt with those who hate peace.

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

Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).