{"id":246,"date":"2025-10-04T01:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:38:30","slug":"psalm-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 120"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Song of Ascents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 In my distress I called to the Lord,<br>and He answered me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Deliver me, O Lord,<br>from lying <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">lips<\/mark>,<br>from a deceitful <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">tongue<\/mark>.<br>3 What shall be given to you,<br>and what more shall be done to you,<br>you deceitful <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">tongue<\/mark>?<br>4 A warrior&#8217;s sharp arrows,<br>with glowing coals of the broom tree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">5 Woe to me, that I <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">sojourn<\/mark> in Meshech,<br>that I <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">dwell<\/mark> among the tents of Kedar!<br>6 Too long have I had my <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">dwelling<\/mark><br>among those who hate peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 I am for peace,<br>but when I <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">speak<\/mark>, <br>they are for war!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Song of Ascents. 1 In my distress I called to the Lord,and He answered me. 2 Deliver me, O Lord,from lying lips,from a deceitful tongue.3 What shall be given to you,and what more shall be done to you,you deceitful tongue?4 A warrior&#8217;s sharp arrows,with glowing coals of the broom tree! 5 Woe to me, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}