Psalms 120

1 [A Song of Ascents.] In my distress, I cried to Jehovah. He answered me.

Canticum graduum. Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi, et exaudivit me.

2 Deliver my soul, Jehovah, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis et a lingua dolosa.

3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam?

4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Sagittæ potentis acutæ, cum carbonibus desolatoriis.

5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar.

Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est! habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar;

6 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

multum incola fuit anima mea.

7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

Cum his qui oderunt pacem eram pacificus; cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.