(0) Psalm 120 A song of ascents.

(1) I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

(2) Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

(3) What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?

(4) He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.

(5) Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

(6) Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.

(7) I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.