1 A song of the ascents. In my trouble I called unto Jehovah, and he answered me.
2 Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lip of lying, from a tongue of deceit.
3 What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto thee, O tongue of deceit?
4 A mighty one’s arrows sharpened, with coals of broom.
5 Alas for me, that I sojourn [in] Mesech, that I dwell with the tents of Kedar!
6 Long (much) for her hath my soul dwelt with a hater of peace.
7 For me I [am] peace; and when speak, they [are] for war.
Notes on Psalm 120
“A song of the ascents.” It is the situation amid threatening foes north and south, from whom deliverance is sought. There was “the liar,” the Antichrist, on one side; on the other, the hordes of the great external enemy. The last days are unmistakable here.