1 A song of ascents. I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
2Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
3What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
4He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
5Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
6Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
7I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.