Deliver Me, O Lord
A Song of aAscents.
In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
2 Deliver me, O Lord,
from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given to you,
aand what more shall be done to you,
you deceitful tongue?
4 aA warrior’s bsharp arrows,
with glowing ccoals of the broom tree!
5 Woe to me, that I sojourn in aMeshech,
that I dwell among bthe tents of cKedar!
6 Too long have I had my dwelling
among those who hate peace.
7 aI am for peace,
but when I speak, they are for war!