## Psalms Chapter 120

###### Psalms 120:1
[Psalms 120:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:1)

שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹת אֶל־יְ֭הֹוָה בַּצָּרָ֣תָה לִּ֑י קָ֝רָ֗אתִי וַֽיַּעֲנֵֽנִי׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
A Ma῾alot Poem. In my distress I cried to the Lord, and he heard me.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
A song of ascents to the L rd [(recited by the Levites on the fifteen steps descending from the Israelite's court to the women's court [(so that there are fifteen "songs of ascents")]. When I was in distress, I called and He answered me.


###### Psalms 120:2
[Psalms 120:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:2)

יְֽהֹוָ֗ה הַצִּ֣ילָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשְּׂפַת־שֶׁ֑קֶר מִלָּשׁ֥וֹן רְמִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
O L rd, rescue my soul from lying lips [(from those who hunt men with wicked libels)], from deceitful tongue.


###### Psalms 120:3
[Psalms 120:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:3)

מַה־יִּתֵּ֣ן לְ֭ךָ וּמַה־יֹּסִ֥יף לָ֗ךְ לָשׁ֥וֹן רְמִיָּֽה׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
What shall be given to thee? or what shall be done to thee, thou false tongue?

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
What [additional safeguard (aside from the teeth and the lips)] will He assign to you, and what will He add unto you, O deceitful tongue?


###### Psalms 120:4
[Psalms 120:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:4)

חִצֵּ֣י גִבּ֣וֹר שְׁנוּנִ֑ים עִ֝֗ם גַּחֲלֵ֥י רְתָמִֽים׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of the broom tree.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[You are like] the sharpened arrows of a warrior [(killing from afar)], with coals of the broom [(which, though extinguished on the outside, still burn on the inside)].


###### Psalms 120:5
[Psalms 120:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:5)

אֽוֹיָה־לִ֭י כִּי־גַ֣רְתִּי מֶ֑שֶׁךְ שָׁ֝כַ֗נְתִּי עִֽם־אׇהֳלֵ֥י קֵדָֽר׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshekh, that I dwell in the tents of Qedar!

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Woe unto me [(Israel) who by cause of such slander] have dwelt [in the exile of] Meshech, have lived among the tent [-dwellers] of Kedar.


###### Psalms 120:6
[Psalms 120:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:6)

רַ֭בַּת שָֽׁכְנָה־לָּ֣הּ נַפְשִׁ֑י עִ֝֗ם שׂוֹנֵ֥א שָׁלֽוֹם׃

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
My soul has long dwelt with haters of peace.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Long has my soul lived with the haters of peace.


###### Psalms 120:7
[Psalms 120:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Psalms/r/120:7)

אֲֽנִי־שָׁ֭לוֹם וְכִ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר הֵ֝֗מָּה לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃{פ}

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
I am a man of peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

**The Rashi Ketuvim by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
I am [for] peace [with them]; but when I speak [peace with them], they [come] to war [with me].