Psalms 120
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A Cry Against Deceitful Tongues
1A song of ascents. To Yahweh in my distress I called out, and he answered me.
2Yahweh, deliver my life from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3What will he give to you, and what will he add to you, O deceitful tongue?
4Sharpened arrows of a warrior, with glowing coals of the broom tree!
5Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
6Too long has my life dwelt with those who hate peace.
7I am peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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A Cry Against Deceitful Tongues
- parallel Psalms 122:1 — This is one of the fifteen Songs of Ascents (Pss 120-134) sharing the same pilgrimage superscription and setting.
- parallel Psalms 134:1 — Shares the 'song of ascents' superscription with the pilgrimage collection of Psalms 120-134.
- echoed in Jonah 2:1 — Echoes the psalm of distress: calling to Yahweh in trouble and being answered.
- allusion Psalms 18:6 — The pattern of calling to Yahweh in distress and being answered is a shared lament-thanksgiving motif.
- thematic Psalms 12:2 — Both plead against lying lips and deceitful/flattering tongues as the psalmist's enemies.
- thematic Psalms 35:20 — Both contrast the psalmist's desire for peace with adversaries devoted to strife against the peaceable.