Psalms 120:3
What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
In Context
2Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with burning coals of broom-wood.
Cross References
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?
Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.
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 →