Book of Psalms · Chapter 120 of 150

Psalms 120: Verse-by-Verse Commentary (with Videos)

7 verses · 1 video commentaries from 1 course · Berean Standard Bible

¹A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

²Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

³What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

⁴Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

⁵Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

⁶Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

⁷I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Psalms 120 Verse Notes

Ps 120:1

The Book of Psalms as a growing collection

The Book of Psalms is not a closed corpus but a collection that grew over time, as evidenced by variations in the number and ordering of psalms across different ancient texts like the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first 89 psalms are relatively stable, but later sections show more fluidity, indicating ongoing additions and rearrangements, similar to modern hymnals.

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