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Psalm 120
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Song of degrees.
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3What shall be
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6My
7I am for
Footnotes
In My Distress I Cried to the LORD
A song of ascents.
1In 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 dweltamong those who hate peace. 7I am in favor of peace;but when I speak, they want war.
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