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.
English Revised Version
Psalms 120
1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he answered me. 2Deliver my soul, O LORD, 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.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.