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Campement de bédouins dans le désert. Marie Méloé Lafon, 1841. Gazette Drouot, image cropped by the uploader. Public domain.

Psalm 120

7 verses · David and others · 10th to 5th century BC · Wisdom and poetry

In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

The line breaks below follow the poem's own punctuation.

In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

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

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

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