Psalmorum 120

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

“A song of the degrees.” Unto the Lord, when I was in distress, did I call, and he hath answered me.

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

O Lord, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, and from a tongue of deceit.

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

What will [God] give unto thee? or what will he add unto thee, thou tongue of deceit?

4 Sagittae potentis acutae, cum carbonibus desolatoriis.

Sharpened arrows of the mighty, with coals of the broom-bush.

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

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

6 multum incola fuit anima mea.

Too long for herself hath my soul dwelt with him that hateth 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.