Skip to content

YLT · Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 120

1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

4Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

5Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

6Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

7I [am] peace, and when I speak they [are] for war!

Young's Literal Translation · 1862 · Public Domain

Word-for-word from the Hebrew and Greek — preserves tense and idiom.