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Bible study · Psalm 120:1-7

Psalm 120: I am for peace

Read Psalm 120:1-7 before you meet.

In a few lines

The first song of ascents opens with a cry that is answered, "He answered me" (120:1), in the same Hebrew words for distress, calling and answering as Jonah's prayer (Jonah 2:2), and ends on war: "I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war" (120:7). Its Woe (120:5) is a form found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.

The verse to carry

“Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 120:2

To talk about

  1. 1. "In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me" (120:1). When have you cried out to God in trouble, and what happened?

  2. 2. "Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue" (120:2). When have someone's words hurt you, and what did you do with it?

  3. 3. "I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war" (120:7). What does it look like for you to be for peace with someone who isn't, right now?

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