¹A song of ascents:

I called to Adonai in my distress,

and he answered me.

²Rescue me, Adonai , from lips that tell lies,

from a tongue full of deceit.

³What has he in store for you, deceitful tongue?

What more will he do to you?

⁴A warrior’s sharp arrows,

with red-hot coals from a broom tree.

⁵How wretched I am, that I’m an alien in Meshekh,

that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

⁶I have had to live far too long

with those who hate peace.

⁷I am all for peace;

but when I speak, they are for war.