Bible Reading: Psalm, returning to God from exile

Psalm 120

A song of ascent (ascent meaning climbing up to a holy place.) Prayer of a returned exile.

The Lord answered me
when I called in my distress:
Lord, deliver me from lying lips,
from treacherous tongues.

What will the Lord inflict on you,
O treacherous tongue,
and what more besides?
A warrior's sharpened arrows
and fiery coals of brushwood!

Also, I was an alien in Meshech,
I lived near the tents of Kedar!
Too long did I live
among those who hated peace.
When I spoke of peace,
they were for war.