A Song of Ascents.

• ¹In my distress, I cried to Yahweh.
• He answered me.

• ²Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips,
• from a deceitful tongue.

• ³What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,
• you deceitful tongue?

• ⁴Sharp arrows of the mighty,
• with coals of juniper.

• ⁵Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,
• that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

• ⁶My soul has had her dwelling too long
• with him who hates peace.

• ⁷I am for peace,
• but when I speak, they are for war.