Psalms 120:2
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
In Context
1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.
3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
Cross References
Psalms 35:11Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.
Psalms 52:6And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.
Psalms 140:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me.
Micah 6:12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] 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 →