In My Distress I Cried to Yahweh

1A Song of the Ascents.

1 To YHWH, in the distress for me, I cried out,

and He answered me.

2O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lip of falsehood,

from a tongue of deceit!

3What will He give to you,

or what will He add to you,

O tongue of deceit?

4The sharpened arrows of a mighty one,

with the burning coals of broom trees!

5Woe to me for I have sojourned in Mesech;

I have dwelt among the tents of Kedar!

6Too much has dwelt my soul

with the one hating peace!

7I am peace,

and when I speak, they are for war.