Psalm 120120PsalmsBook 5unfoldingWord® Simplified Text

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1. In My Distress I Cried to the LORD

2. 1USTA psalm for people going up to the temple to worship. When I was distressed, I called out to Yahweh, and he answered me.BSBBSB: A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
3. 2UST{ I prayed,}“Yahweh, rescue me from people who tell lies, who say things to deceive me!”BSBBSB: Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
4. 3USTYou people who lie, God will certainly punish you. He will do even more to you than that.BSBBSB: What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
5. 4USTHe will punish you severely as with a warrior’ s sharp arrows, and as with burning coals from broom tree wood.BSBBSB: Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
6. 5USTIt is terrible for me that I{ have to} live among{ people like those in} Meshech,{ that} I{ have to} dwell with{ people like those who live in} the tents of Kedar.BSBBSB: Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
7. 6USTI have lived too long among people who hate to live peacefully with others.BSBBSB: Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.
8. 7USTI want to live peacefully, but whenever I speak{ about it}, they want to fight.BSBBSB: I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

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