1 A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried to Yahweh, And he answered me.2 Deliver my soul, O Yahweh, from lying lips, [And] 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 sojourn in Meshech, That I stay among the tents of Kedar!6 My soul has stayed too long With him who hates peace.7 I am [for] peace: But when I speak, they are for war.