Psalmorum 120

1 Canticum graduum. Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi: et exaudivit me.

A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.

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

Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

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

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

4 Sagittæ potentis acutæ, cum carbonibus desolatoriis.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

5 Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est: habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar:

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell amongst the tents of Kedar!

6 multum incola fuit anima mea.

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

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

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