Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue - From a people without faith, without truth, without religion; who sought by lies and calumnies to destroy them.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deliver my soul, O Lord - My soul is harassed and distressed. Perhaps the meaning also may be, My life is in danger. Or, if it refers to the soul...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXX. Prayer Against Calumniators. Here begin the Psalms of Ascents, i.e. Pss. intended to be sung by the pilgrims at the three great feasts on th...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deliver . Pluck me. Hebrew. nazal. Same word as in Psalms 119:170 . The reference is to 2 Kings 18:30 ; 2 Kings 18:32 . my soul . me. Hebrew....
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. O Jehovah! deliver my soul from the lip of falsehood. David now points out the kind of his affliction, declaring that he was loaded with...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Deliver my soul ( Psalms 116:4 ), O Lord, from lying lips - from the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deliver... — This is the cry for help of which mention has just been made. The thought is one we have met frequently. Of all the elements of bitter...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 120:1-7 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association wit...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Where to Find Help Psalms 120:1-7 ; Psalms 121:1-8 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-s...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next fifteen psalms appear to have formed a book of themselves bearing the title, "The Songs of Ascents." That collection is incorporated by the...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we read another Psalm to this effect, and which hath been always considered as referring to Jesus, we shall find how the holy sufferer complains o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. Not from such lips, and such a tongue of his own, which David abhorred; th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. Ver. 2. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips ] This was David's distr...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deliver my soul from lying lips From the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies; and from a deceitful tongue Which covers mischie...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Confession and Complaints. A song of degrees. 1 In my distress I c...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

From lying lips; from the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies, who traduce me as an egregious hypocrite, as a rebel and traitor....
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE SONGS OF DEGREES Psalms 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Asce...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 120:1 . In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me. Slander occasions distress of the most grievous kind. Those who have felt t...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This and the fourteen psalms which follow, are entitled, “Songs of Mahaloth, or degrees.” Kimchi, and some of the rabbins say, they were so called be...
The Biblical Illustrator

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me. The Songs of Degrees How came this and fourteen following psalms to be put together, and...
The Biblical Illustrator

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips. Lying lips A watch that cannot be depended upon is of very little use. It may have a beautiful gold c...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE SONGS OF ASCENTS . THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for Deliverance from Slander and Deceit. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue, literally, "from a lip of lying, from a tongue of malice," the contention of th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 26:59-62 ; Psalms 109:1 ; Psalms 109:2 ; Psalms 140:1-3 ; Psalms 35:11 ; Psalms 52:2-4

² Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 120:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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