Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 120:2

"Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue." — Psalms 120:2 (ASV)

Deliver ... —This is the cry for help that was just mentioned. This idea is one we have encountered frequently. Of all the elements of bitterness that made up Israel's lot under foreign rule, taunts and slanders seem to have inflicted the deepest wound and left the most lasting scar. This was “the torture prolonged from age to age,” under which we hear one psalmist after another raising his cry for deliverance.