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.
Geneva Bible 1599
Psalms 120
1A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lord in my trouble, and hee heard me. 2Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue. 3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee? 4It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper. 5Woe is to me that I remaine in Meschech, and dwell in the tentes of Kedar. 6My soule hath too long dwelt with him that hateth peace. 7I seeke peace, and when I speake thereof, they are bent to warre.
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