Psalm 120:1 I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

◄ Psalm 120:1 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
A song of ascents. I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.

English Standard Version
A Song of Ascents. In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.

New American Standard Bible
A Song of Ascents. In my trouble I cried to the LORD, And He answered me.

King James Bible
[[A Song of degrees.]] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A song of ascents. In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me."

International Standard Version
I cried to the LORD in my distress, and he responded to me.

American Standard Version
In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

Darby Bible Translation
{A Song of degrees.} In my trouble I called unto Jehovah, and he answered me.

Young's Literal Translation
A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.

Cross References

Exodus 34:24
For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the LORD your God thrice in the year.

2 Samuel 22:7
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

1 Kings 12:27
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:12
And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Psalm 18:6
In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Psalm 22:21
Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

Psalm 66:14
Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.

Psalm 102:2
Hide not your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline your ear to me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

Psalm 118:5
I called on the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

Jonah 2:2
And said, I cried by reason of my affliction to the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

120:1-4 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 fervent prayer. God can bridle their tongues. He obtained a gracious answer to this prayer. Surely sinners durst not act as they do, if they knew, and would be persuaded to think, what will be in the end thereof. The terrors of the Lord are his arrows; and his wrath is compared to burning coals of juniper, which have a fierce heat, and keep fire very long. This is the portion of the false tongue; for all that love and make a lie, shall have their portion in the lake that burns eternally.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 120

Ps 120:1-7. This is the first of fifteen Psalms (Psalms 120-134) entitled "A Song of Degrees" (Ps 121:1—literally, "A song for the degrees"), or ascents. It seems most probable they were designed for the use of the people when going up (compare 1Ki 12:27, 28) to Jerusalem on the festival occasions (De 16:16), three times a year. David appears as the author of four, Solomon of one (Ps 127:1), and the other ten are anonymous, probably composed after the captivity. In this Psalm the writer acknowledges God's mercy, prays for relief from a malicious foe, whose punishment he anticipates, and then repeats his complaint.