Psalms 120:2
O Lord, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, and from a tongue of deceit.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
In Context
1“A song of the degrees.” Unto the Lord, when I was in distress, did I call, and he hath answered me.
3What will [God] give unto thee? or what will he add unto thee, thou tongue of deceit?
Cross References
Psalms 35:11There rise up witnesses of violence; concerning what I know not they question me.
Psalms 52:6(52:8) And the righteous shall see it, and they will be afraid, and laugh concerning him:
Psalms 140:1“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” (140:2) Deliver me, O Lord, from an evil man; from a man of violence do thou keep me;
Micah 6:12For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken falsehood, and their tongue is deceit [itself] 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 →