A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
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Psalms 120:1-7
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be givena unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharpb arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.