Skip to main content
Psalmlog Logo
Read

Psalm 120:2

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

1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.
2Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
World English BibleRead in NIV in Psalmlog →
← Psalm 120:1Psalm 120:3 →
Notice

“Lying lips” make speech itself a source of danger, and the plea for deliverance treats the harm of deceit as something to bring before God.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What kind of harm from “lying lips” would you want to name before God?

Write on this

What would deliverance from a deceitful tongue look like in a situation you know?

Write on this
Connect

Where else Scripture says this

7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

This verse's connections, by chapterThe Bible's strongest chapter linksHover or tap a book to trace it
Psalm 140:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, LORD, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men:Both prayers ask the LORD for deliverance from people whose actions threaten the speaker, naming deceit in one and violence in the other.
Psalm 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.Both name “lying lips”: Psalm 120 asks for deliverance from them, while Psalm 31 asks that they be silenced.
Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who do the truth are his delight.Both name “lying lips,” which the psalm treats as a danger and Proverbs declares an abomination to the LORD.
Psalm 52:2–4Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Both connect the tongue with deceit, and Psalm 52 makes its destructive force explicit through the comparison to a sharp razor.
Psalm 109:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,Both address God with an urgent plea for his response: deliverance in Psalm 120 and an end to silence in Psalm 109.
Matthew 26:59–62Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death,The psalm seeks rescue from deceitful speech; Matthew describes leaders seeking false testimony against Jesus to bring about his death.
Mark 12:14When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way …Speech is their limited shared thread: the psalm pleads against deceit, while Jesus’ questioners describe him as honest.
Where this verse fits

Work conflict. broken friendship. injustice and anger.

What the Bible says about anger →
One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 120:2 aloud before one difficult conversation

prayeroncelight
Encouragement

Harm done through lies belongs in prayer. This plea leaves the timing of rescue unstated, yet names YHWH as the one to whom the endangered person turns.

Now put it in your words.

Start an entry on Psalm 120:2. Write what it stirs. Psalmlog sets your words beside Scripture and gives you one next step. Your first entry is free, no account needed.

Keep goingPsalm 120 · the whole chapter with its connection mapPsalms · every chapterBuild a reading plan through Psalms

Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).