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Psalms 120

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 8 verses · 9 questions below

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Chapter 120 of 150 · 8 verses

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Catholic · source details below

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Psalm 120 begins with a speaker in distress who says Yahweh answered when called. The speaker asks to be delivered from lying and deceitful speech, imagines judgment on the deceitful tongue, and laments living among people who hate peace. The poem ends with a sharp contrast: the speaker is for peace, but the surrounding community is for war.

Themes Prayer from distress · Deliverance from deceitful speech · Judgment on the deceitful tongue · Alienation among hostile people

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Text: Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Public domain
Canon: Catholic
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I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

May the Lord keep thy going in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

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