Psalms 120

Psalms 120:1

ASV: In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.

DARBY: {A Song of degrees.} In my trouble I called unto Jehovah, and he answered me.

DRA: Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

KJV: In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Psalms 120:2

ASV: Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.

DARBY: Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.

DRA: Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

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

Psalms 120:3

ASV: What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?

DARBY: What shall be given unto thee, what shall be added unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?

DRA: For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways.

KJV: What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Psalms 120:4

ASV: Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

DARBY: Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with burning coals of broom-wood.

DRA: Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently.

KJV: Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Psalms 120:5

ASV: Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

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

DRA: O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications.

KJV: Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Psalms 120:6

ASV: My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

DARBY: My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace.

DRA: Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.

KJV: My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

Psalms 120:7

ASV: I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war. Psalm 121 A Song of Ascents.

DARBY: I [am for] peace; but when I speak, *they* [are] for war.

DRA: I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice.

KJV: I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalms 120:8

DRA: I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. BETH

Psalms 120:9

DRA: By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.

Psalms 120:10

DRA: With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.

Psalms 120:11

DRA: Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

Psalms 120:12

DRA: Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:13

DRA: With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

Psalms 120:14

DRA: I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.

Psalms 120:15

DRA: I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

Psalms 120:16

DRA: I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL

Psalms 120:17

DRA: Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.

Psalms 120:18

DRA: Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

Psalms 120:19

DRA: I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalms 120:20

DRA: My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.

Psalms 120:21

DRA: Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments.

Psalms 120:22

DRA: Remove from reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:23

DRA: For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

Psalms 120:24

DRA: For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. DALETH

Psalms 120:25

DRA: My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalms 120:26

DRA: I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: tech me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:27

DRA: Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

Psalms 120:28

DRA: My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words.

Psalms 120:29

DRA: Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me.

Psalms 120:30

DRA: I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten.

Psalms 120:31

DRA: I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame.

Psalms 120:32

DRA: I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. HE

Psalms 120:33

DRA: Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it.

Psalms 120:34

DRA: Give me understanding, and I will search thy law ; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

Psalms 120:35

DRA: Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.

Psalms 120:36

DRA: Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

Psalms 120:37

DRA: Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.

Psalms 120:38

DRA: Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear.

Psalms 120:39

DRA: Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful.

Psalms 120:40

DRA: Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice. VAU

Psalms 120:41

DRA: Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.

Psalms 120:42

DRA: So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.

Psalms 120:43

DRA: And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words have I hoped exceedingly.

Psalms 120:44

DRA: So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever.

Psalms 120:45

DRA: And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.

Psalms 120:46

DRA: And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed.

Psalms 120:47

DRA: I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved.

Psalms 120:48

DRA: And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications. ZAIN

Psalms 120:49

DRA: Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope.

Psalms 120:50

DRA: This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.

Psalms 120:51

DRA: The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

Psalms 120:52

DRA: I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.

Psalms 120:53

DRA: A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Psalms 120:54

DRA: Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.

Psalms 120:55

DRA: In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.

Psalms 120:56

DRA: This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. HETH

Psalms 120:57

DRA: O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep the law.

Psalms 120:58

DRA: I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word.

Psalms 120:59

DRA: I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:60

DRA: I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments.

Psalms 120:61

DRA: The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalms 120:62

DRA: I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.

Psalms 120:63

DRA: I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.

Psalms 120:64

DRA: The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications. TETH

Psalms 120:65

DRA: Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word.

Psalms 120:66

DRA: Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments.

Psalms 120:67

DRA: Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word.

Psalms 120:68

DRA: Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:69

DRA: The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

Psalms 120:70

DRA: Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law.

Psalms 120:71

DRA: It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications.

Psalms 120:72

DRA: The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. JOD

Psalms 120:73

DRA: Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Psalms 120:74

DRA: They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I have greatly hoped in thy words.

Psalms 120:75

DRA: I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me.

Psalms 120:76

DRA: O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Psalms 120:77

DRA: Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.

Psalms 120:78

DRA: Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.

Psalms 120:79

DRA: Let them that fear thee turn to me" and they that know thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:80

DRA: Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. CAPH

Psalms 120:81

DRA: My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

Psalms 120:82

DRA: My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me?

Psalms 120:83

DRA: For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Psalms 120:84

DRA: How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Psalms 120:85

DRA: The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law.

Psalms 120:86

DRA: All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me.

Psalms 120:87

DRA: They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.

Psalms 120:88

DRA: Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth. LAMED

Psalms 120:89

DRA: For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven.

Psalms 120:90

DRA: Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth.

Psalms 120:91

DRA: By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee.

Psalms 120:92

DRA: Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

Psalms 120:93

DRA: Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life.

Psalms 120:94

DRA: I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications.

Psalms 120:95

DRA: The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:96

DRA: I have seen an end to all persecution: thy commandment is exceeding broad. MEM

Psalms 120:97

DRA: O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.

Psalms 120:98

DRA: Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.

Psalms 120:99

DRA: I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.

Psalms 120:100

DRA: I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.

Psalms 120:101

DRA: I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words.

Psalms 120:102

DRA: I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law.

Psalms 120:103

DRA: How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.

Psalms 120:104

DRA: By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity. NUN

Psalms 120:105

DRA: Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths.

Psalms 120:106

DRA: I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice.

Psalms 120:107

DRA: I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Psalms 120:108

DRA: The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments.

Psalms 120:109

DRA: My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalms 120:110

DRA: Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.

Psalms 120:111

DRA: I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are a joy to my heart.

Psalms 120:112

DRA: I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward. SAMECH

Psalms 120:113

DRA: I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law.

Psalms 120:114

DRA: Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped.

Psalms 120:115

DRA: Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God.

Psalms 120:116

DRA: Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation.

Psalms 120:117

DRA: Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications.

Psalms 120:118

DRA: Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust.

Psalms 120:119

DRA: I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:120

DRA: Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments. AIN

Psalms 120:121

DRA: I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me.

Psalms 120:122

DRA: Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me.

Psalms 120:123

DRA: My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice.

Psalms 120:124

DRA: Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:125

DRA: I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:126

DRA: It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.

Psalms 120:127

DRA: Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz.

Psalms 120:128

DRA: Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways. PHE

Psalms 120:129

DRA: Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them.

Psalms 120:130

DRA: The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones.

Psalms 120:131

DRA: I opened my mouth and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.

Psalms 120:132

DRA: Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, according to the judgment of them that love thy name.

Psalms 120:133

DRA: Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalms 120:134

DRA: Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments.

Psalms 120:135

DRA: Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:136

DRA: My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. SADE

Psalms 120:137

DRA: Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right.

Psalms 120:138

DRA: Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly.

Psalms 120:139

DRA: My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.

Psalms 120:140

DRA: Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it.

Psalms 120:141

DRA: I am very young and despised; but I forgot not thy justifications.

Psalms 120:142

DRA: Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth.

Psalms 120:143

DRA: Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation.

Psalms 120:144

DRA: Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. COPH

Psalms 120:145

DRA: I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications.

Psalms 120:146

DRA: I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments.

Psalms 120:147

DRA: I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.

Psalms 120:148

DRA: My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.

Psalms 120:149

DRA: Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy mercy.

Psalms 120:150

DRA: They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from the law.

Psalms 120:151

DRA: Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth.

Psalms 120:152

DRA: I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever. RES

Psalms 120:153

DRA: See my humiliation and deliver me: for I have not forgotten the law.

Psalms 120:154

DRA: Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake.

Psalms 120:155

DRA: Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.

Psalms 120:156

DRA: Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment.

Psalms 120:157

DRA: Many are they that persecute me, and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

Psalms 120:158

DRA: I beheld the transgressors, and I pined away; because they kept not thy word.

Psalms 120:159

DRA: Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy.

Psalms 120:160

DRA: The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever. SIN

Psalms 120:161

DRA: Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words.

Psalms 120:162

DRA: I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.

Psalms 120:163

DRA: I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.

Psalms 120:164

DRA: Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice.

Psalms 120:165

DRA: Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block

Psalms 120:166

DRA: I looked to thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.

Psalms 120:167

DRA: My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and hath loved them exceedingly.

Psalms 120:168

DRA: I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. TAU

Psalms 120:169

DRA: Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.

Psalms 120:170

DRA: Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word.

Psalms 120:171

DRA: My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications.

Psalms 120:172

DRA: My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice.

Psalms 120:173

DRA: Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

Psalms 120:174

DRA: I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

Psalms 120:175

DRA: My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.

Psalms 120:176

DRA: I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy commandments.