1 I call upon the LORD in my distress;
he listens to my prayer and answers me.
2 Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips
and from all tongues that speak deceitfully.
3 What will he do to you, deceitful tongue?
What more besides will be your fitting doom?
4 With warriors’ arrows he will pierce you through,
and punish you with burning coals of broom.
5 What misery to live in Meshech’s land,
in Kedar’s tents, among my enemies!
6 With people loving strife I’ve lived too long;
7 they are for war, e’en when I speak for peace.
– Sing Psalms, alt.
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