Self-interpreting Bible
Psalms 120
David prayeth against his enemy, by whose slanderous behaviour he had been driven to reside among strangers.
0 aA Song of degrees.
- a: Ps. 42:4 , Psalms 120 - 134 , Is. 30:29
1 IN bmy distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 cDeliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- c: Ps. 52:2 - 4 , Ps. 140:1 - 11 , Ps. 31:20 , Is. 54:17
3 1What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be 2done unto thee, thou false tongue?
- 1: Or, What shall the deceitful tongue give unto thee? or, what shall it profit thee?
- 2: Heb. added.
4 3Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 dWoe is me, that I *sojourn in eMesech, that I dwell in the tents of fKedar!
- d: Mi. 7:1 - 5 , Ps. 140:1 - 11 , Ps. 142:4 , Ge. 25:13
- *: sojourn-dwell for a time.
- e: Ge. 10:2 , Eze. 27:13
- f: Is. 60:7