1A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried to Jehovah, and He answered me.
2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
3What shall be given to you, or what shall one add to you, O false tongue?
4Sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of broom!
5Woe is me that I sojourned in Meshech; I dwell with the tents of Kedar!
6My soul has long dwelt to itself, with him who hates peace.
7I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.