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Psalms 120

Brenton Septuagint · 8 verses · 9 questions below

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Chapter 120 of 151 · 8 verses

Brenton Septuagint · Eastern Orthodox · 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: Brenton Septuagint · Public domain
Canon: Eastern Orthodox
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A Song of Degrees. I lifted up mine eyes to the mountains, whence my help shall come.

My help [shall come] from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.

Let not thy foot be moved; and let not thy keeper slumber.

Behold, he that keeps Israel shall not slumber nor sleep.

The Lord shall keep thee: the Lord is thy shelter upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

May the Lord preserve thee from all evil: the Lord shall keep thy soul.

The Lord shall keep thy coming in, and thy going out, from henceforth and even for ever.

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