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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 120:2

Deliver... — This is the cry for help of which mention has just been made. The thought is one we have met frequently. Of all the elements of bitterness which made up the lot of Israel under foreign dominion, taunts and calumnies seem to have made the deepest wound, and left the most lasting scar. This was “the torture prolonged from age to age,” under which we hear psalmist after psalmist raising his cry for deliverance.

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See also Psalms 120:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 120:2. _LYING LIPS_, AND _FROM A DECEITFUL TONGUE._] From a people without faith, without truth, without religion; who sought by lies and calumnies to destroy them....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DELIVER MY SOUL, O LORD - My soul is harassed and distressed. Perhaps the meaning also may be, My life is in danger. Or, if it refers to the soul as such, then it means that everything pertaining to h...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CXX. PRAYER AGAINST CALUMNIATORS. Here begin the Psalms of Ascents, _i.e._ Pss. intended to be sung by the pilgrims at the three great feasts on their way up to Jerusalem, which stood on a height. Psa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DELIVER. Pluck me. Hebrew. _nazal._ Same word as in Psalms 119:170. The reference is to 2 Kings 18:30; 2 Kings 18:32. MY SOUL. me. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LIPS. Hebrew. lip: i.e. Rab-

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 120 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Peace _versus_ War. ANALYSIS (See Inserted Headlines.) (Lm.) Song of the Steps. (A GRATEFUL KING'S MEMORIAL.) 1 Unto Jehovah in the distress that befell me I calle...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. DELIVER MY SOUL ( ), O LORD, FROM LYING LIPS - from the Samaritans, who, by lying slanders, sought to destroy Israel's nation...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A cry for help to Jehovah in the midst of sore distress, evidently by an exile under foreign oppression....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We will go up to Jerusalem" (Luke 18:31

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יְֽהוָ֗ה הַצִּ֣ילָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִ שְּׂפַת ־שֶׁ֑קֶר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 120:1 THE collection of pilgrim songs is appropriately introduced by one expressive of the unrest arising from compulsory association with uncongenial and hostile neighbours. The psalmist lamen...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHERE TO FIND HELP Psalms 120:1; Psalms 121:1 This is the first of the “Songs of Degrees.” It has been suggested that they were pilgrim-songs to beguile the journeys from all parts of the country to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next fifteen psalms appear to have formed a book of themselves bearing the title, "The Songs of Ascents." That collection is incorporated by the editor at this point not without purpose. The title...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If we read another Psalm to this effect, and which hath been always considered as referring to Jesus, we shall find how the holy sufferer complains of false witnesses rising up against him. Psalms 35:...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._O Jehovah! deliver my soul from the lip of falsehood. _David now points out the kind of his affliction, declaring that he was loaded with false accusations. In charging his enemies with lying and f...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We now come, Psalms 120-134, to the songs of degrees, which depict, I doubt not, the outward circumstances of the same period, when Israel is in the land, but the power of Gog not yet destroyed. The f...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DELIVER MY SOUL, O LORD, FROM LYING LIPS, [AND] FROM A DECEITFUL TONGUE. Not from such lips, and such a tongue of his own, which David abhorred; though every good man desires to be kept from speaking...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, [and] from a deceitful tongue. Ver. 2. _Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips_] This was David's distress, and it lay heavy upon his spirit; so it did upo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Deliver my soul from lying lips_ From the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies; _and from a deceitful tongue_ Which covers mischievous designs under pretences of kindness. _What sha...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE FROM SLANDER AND DECEIT. A song of degrees, literally, "of ascents," the first of fifteen psalms designated by that name, the reference being either to the fact that these hymns...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue, literally, "from a lip of lying, from a tongue of malice," the contention of the psalmist being implied that he is innocent of the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 The psalmist was brought into great distress by a deceitful tongue. May every good man be delivered from lying lips. They forged false charges against him. In this distress, he sought God by ferv...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FROM LYING LIPS; from the unjust censures and malicious slanders of mine enemies, who traduce me as an egregious hypocrite, as a rebel and traitor. FROM A DECEITFUL TONGUE; which covereth mischievous...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 120:2 Deliver H5337 (H8685) soul H5315 LORD H3068 lying H8267 lips H8193 deceitful H7423 tongue H3956...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 120:1. _In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me._ Slander occasions distress of the most grievous kind. Those who have felt the edge of a cruel tongue know assuredly that it is s...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from the mischief designed by false and malicious tongues. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: It is often the lot of the innocent that there are those who carry...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This and the fourteen psalms which follow, are entitled, “Songs of Mahaloth, or degrees.” Kimchi, and some of the rabbins say, they were so called because they were sung on the steps of the second tem...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me._ THE SONGS OF DEGREES How came this and fourteen following psalms to be put together, and to receive their distinctive title? It has been sugge...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips._ LYING LIPS A watch that cannot be depended upon is of very little use. It may have a beautiful gold case, it may be sparkling with jewels, but yet it will...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 120:1. Psalms 120:1 is the first of the “Songs of Ascents” ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE SONGS OF DEGREES PSALMS 120-134 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The principal hypotheses on which to account for the “Songs of Degrees,” “Songs of Ascents,” “Pilgrim Psalms,” and to each of which great na...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE_ _SONGS_ _OF_ _ASCENTS_._ THE next fifteen psalms have a common heading, which is translated "Songs of Degrees," "Songs of Ascents," or "Songs of Steps." They constitute together "a Li...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    This time let's turn in our Bibles to Psalms 120:1-7 to begin our Bible study this evening. Now you'll notice these psalms have a heading. The psalm, "A song of degrees." The word literally is ascents...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Matthew 26:59; Psalms 109:1; Psalms 109:2; Psalms 140:1; Psalms

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