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Psalm 120.
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A pilgrim’s lament describes life among deceptive and hostile neighbors. The psalmist longs for peace while surrounded by people eager for conflict.
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- 1A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
- 2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- 3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
- 4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
- 5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
- 6My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
- 7I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
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