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