120:1 A song of ascents. I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

120:2 Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.

120:3 What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?

120:4 He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.

120:5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

120:6 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.

120:7 I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.