1. A song of ascents.The Lord answered mewhen I called in my distress:
2. Lord, deliver my soul from lying lips,from a treacherous tongue.
3. What will he inflict on you,O treacherous tongue,and what more besides?
4. A warrior’s arrowssharpened with coals of brush wood!
5. Alas, I am a foreigner in Meshech,I live among the tents of Kedar!
6. Too long do I liveamong those who hate peace.
7. When I speak of peace,they are for war.