Chapter Text
119:1 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.
119:2 O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
119:3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?
119:4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.
119:5 Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:
119:6 My soul hath been long a sojourner.
119:7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "trouble", "cried", "lord", "heard", "deliver", "soul", and "wicked". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "trouble" and "cried", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The local DRB text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "trouble" and "cried" carries the first interpretive weight. In Psalms context, the local focus is worship, trust, the LORD's kingship, and covenant mercy.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "trouble" and "cried" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.