Psalm 120 - Tree of Life Version

I Am for Shalom

¹ A Song of Ascents. In my trouble I cried out to Adonai, and He answered me.

² Adonai, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

³ What can be given to you, and what more can be done to you, O deceitful tongue?—

⁴ sharp arrows of the mighty, with burning coals of a broom tree!

⁵ Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech, for I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

⁶ My soul has too long dwelt with those who hate shalom.

⁷ I am for shalom and thus I speak, but they are for war!