Psalm 120
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Psalms 120— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
1In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
Rashi on Psalms 120:1
A song of ascents which the Levites will recite on the fifteen steps that go down from the Israelites’ court to the Women’s court, and there are fifteen psalms entitled “A song of ascents” (Suc.:4, Mid:5).
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Aramaic Targum to Psalms 120:1
The song that is said on the ascents from the abyss. Before Adonai, when I was distressed, I prayed, and He received my prayer.
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2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
Rashi on Psalms 120:2
from false lips The arm of those who hunt people with their mouth with wicked accusations.
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3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
Rashi on Psalms 120:3
What can He give you [What can] the Holy One, blessed be He [give you]?
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4Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
Rashi on Psalms 120:4
Sharpened arrows of a mighty man Behold you kill in a distant place like an arrow.
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5Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
Rashi on Psalms 120:5
Woe is to me says the congregation of Israel, for I have already suffered in many exiles. Behold I sojourned in Meshech with the sons of Japheth in the kingdom of Persia, Greece, and Meshech.
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6Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.
7I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.