Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
American Standard Version
Psalms 120
1A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me. 2Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue. 3What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue? 4Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper. 5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar! 6My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace. 7I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
American Standard Version (1901). Copyright expired. Public domain.