120 tonight and Lord willing make it through to Psalm 125. We finished after a little over a month,

I think it was in Psalm 119, the longest Psalm in the book of Psalms and the longest chapter in the Bible.

That's why it took us so long. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. So there you go.

So tonight will Lord willing do five Psalms. Really looking forward to these Psalms as I think you'll

see why here in a moment. For those of you who read ahead to stay ahead you already know. So why don't

we pray and we'll ask God to bless our time together

tonight in His Word if you would join with me.

Loving Heavenly Father, we're so thankful to you for our Thursday night Bible studies and just that time where we can assemble ourselves together in this beautiful church building that you've given us and put aside and put away really all the busyness of our day and just come to this place,

this sanctuary and fellowship together and study together and learn together and hear together

as you speak into our lives in and through your word.

So Lord, as we now have our Bibles open, I pray so too will our hearts be open,

our eyes be open, our ears be open as well.

So Lord, thank you. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. All right. Psalm 120,

A song of a sense. We'll talk about that more in a moment. Verse one, in my distress, I cried out to the Lord and he heard me. Deliver my soul,

O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. What shall be given to you or what shall

be done to you, you false tongue?

Sharp arrows of the warrior with coals of the broom tree.

That's quite the imagery.

Woe is me that I dwell in Meshach, that I dwell among the tents of Qadar.

My soul, verse 6, has dwelt too long with one who hates peace.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. Wow. Well, Psalm 120 begins the first in a series of 15

Psalms that are known as the Songs of Ascent. And the reason for that is because they were sung as they made

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