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PSALM 120

A Song of degrees.

1. In my distress I cried to jehovah, and he answered me.
2. Deliver my soul, O jehovah, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3. What shall he give to you? Yea, what shall he add to you, O false tongue!
4. Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper,
5. Woe to me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell amongst the tents of Kedar!
6. My soul has long dwelt with him that hates peace.
7. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Verse 2. Deliver my soul, O jehovah, from lying lips, etc. Lying lips and a deceitful tongue denote false principles grounded in evil, the dispersion of truth by them is signified by sharp arrows of the mighty. AE 908.

Concerning deceit see Psalm 52:2, Exposition.

Verse 5. Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, etc. They who are not principled in truth, because not in good, are those who are represented by Mesech and Kedar in the wilderness, as in the above passage. AC 3268.

By Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, are signified evils and false principles which devastated the church, and like things are signified by the tents of Kedar in the above words, AE 799.