Psalms 120:1
When I had troubles, I called out to Yahweh and he answered me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
In Context
2I prayed, “Yahweh, rescue/save me from people [SYN, MTY] who lie to me and try to deceive me!”
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:27I prayed that Yahweh would enable me to give birth to a child, and this is the child whom I requested Yahweh to give me.
Psalms 30:7Yahweh, because you were good to me, at first you caused me to be safe as though I was inside [MET] a mountain. But then I became ill, and I thought that you had turned away from me, and I became afraid.
Psalms 50:23The sacrifice that truly honors me is to thank me for what I have done; and I will save those who always do the things that I want them to.”
Psalms 107:13In their troubles, they called out to Yahweh, and he rescued them from their being distressed.
Psalms 118:5When I was distressed, I called out to Yahweh, and he answered me and set me free from my worries/troubles.
Psalms 122:1I was glad/happy when people said to me, “We should go to the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem!”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 120:1
This psalm is the first of those fifteen which are here put together under the title of "songs of degrees." It is well that it is not material what the meaning of that title should be, for nothing is offered towards the explication of it, no, not by the Jewish writers themselves, but what is conjectural. These psalms do not seem to be composed all by the same hand, much less all at the same time. Four of them are expressly ascribed to David, and one is said to be designed for Solomon, and perhaps penned by him;… Read the whole commentary →