After the great acrostic of Psalm 118 (Vulgate), the Psalter deliberately shifts tone and scale. Psalm 119 (Vulgate) is the first of the Songs of Ascents — brief, compressed, and existentially sharp. — Psalm 120 (Hebrew / English)Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi By GRAHAM JOHN A short psalm of distress and moral dislocation, expressing the …