Deliver Me, O Lord

120 A Song of mAscents.

  1  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,

nand what more shall be done to you,

you deceitful tongue?

  4  oA warrior’s psharp arrows,

with glowing qcoals of the broom tree!

  5  Woe to me, that I sojourn in rMeshech,

that I dwell among sthe tents of tKedar!

  6  Too long have I had my dwelling

among those who hate peace.

  7  uI am for peace,

but when I speak, they are for war!