O Yahweh, Deliver My Soul
A Song of Ascents.
aIn my distress I called to Yahweh,
And He answered me.
2 O Yahweh, deliver my soul from a alying lip,
From a bdeceitful tongue.
3 What shall He give to you, and what shall He add to you,
O adeceitful tongue?
4 aSharp arrows of the warrior,
With the burning bcoals of the broom tree.
5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in aMeshech,
For I dwell among the btents of cKedar!
6 Too long has my soul had its dwelling
With those who ahate peace.
7 I aam for peace, but when I speak,
They are bfor war.