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- 1 A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.
- 2 Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
- 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
- 5 Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
- 6 My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
- 7 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.