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Psalm 120:3 (WEB)
What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

Fathers and councils · 5

Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 3
“Just as we read in the Psalms,“What shall be due unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee in respect of a deceitful tongue?” — editor's note: Ps. cxx. 3. Vulg.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions IX.2Book IX
“…hadst given to us, ascending from the valley of tears, and singing the song of degrees, “sharp arrows,” and destroying coals, against the “deceitful tongue,” which in giving counsel opposes, and in showing love consumes, as it is wont to do with its food.” — editor's note: Ps. cxx. 3, 4, according to the Old Ver. This passage has many difficulties we need not enter into. The Vulgate, however, we may say, renders verse 3: “Quid…
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 7
“Sharp arrows of the mighty, with devastating coals:” that is, coals, whereby, when thou art stricken and set on fire, thou mayest burn with so great love of the kingdom of heaven, as to despise the tongues of all…” — editor's note: Ps. cxx. 3, 4.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 120
“And thy Lord saith unto thee, “What shall be given thee, or what shall be set before thee, against the deceitful tongue?” (ver. 3).” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nyssa, On 'Not Three Gods'
“…you turn your ranks, and send against us the assaults of those darts which are hurled by the opponents of the truth, and demand that their “hot burning coals” and their shafts sharpened by knowledge falsely so called should be quenched with the shield of faith by us old men, we accept your command, and make…” — editor's note: Ps. cxx. 3; the phrase is rendered in A.V. by “coals of juniper,” in the Vulg. by “carbonibus desolatoriis.”
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