Psalms 120:2
My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
In Context
1A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me.
3May he not allow your foot to be moved, and may he not slumber, who guards you.
Cross References
Psalms 35:11Extend your mercy before those who know you, and your justice to these, who are upright in heart.
Psalms 52:6They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
Psalms 140:1A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
Micah 6:12By this, her wealthy have been filled with iniquity, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 120:2-5
Confession and Complaints. 1 In my distress I cried unto the Lord , and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord , from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. Here is, I. Deliverance from a false tongue obtained by prayer. David records his own experience of this. 1. He was brought into distress, into great distress, by lying lips and a deceitful tongue. There were those that… Read the whole commentary →