1 I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.2 Save me, LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.3 What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?4 He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!6 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.7 I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

1 Canticum graduum. [Levavi oculos meos in montes,unde veniet auxilium mihi.2 Auxilium meum a Domino,qui fecit clum et terram.3 Non det in commotionem pedem tuum,neque dormitet qui custodit te.4 Ecce non dormitabit neque dormietqui custodit Isral.5 Dominus custodit te ;Dominus protectio tua super manum dexteram tuam.6 Per diem sol non uret te,neque luna per noctem.7 Dominus custodit te ab omni malo ;custodiat animam tuam Dominus.8 Dominus custodiat introitum tuum et exitum tuum,ex hoc nunc et usque in sculum.]