1The song of degrees. When I was set in tribulation, I cried to the Lord; and he heard me.
2Lord, deliver thou my soul from wicked lips; and from a guileful tongue.
3What shall be given to thee, either what shall be laid to thee; to a guileful or treacherous tongue?
4Sharp arrows of the mighty; with coals that make desolate.
5Alas to me! for my dwelling in an alien land is made long, I dwelled with men dwelling in Kedar;
6my soul was much time a come-ling. I was peaceable with them that hated peace;