I call on the Lord in my distress,

and He answers me.

Save me, O Lord, from lying lips

and from deceitful tongues.

What more will he do to you,

and what more besides,

O deceitful tongue?

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,

with burning coals of the broom tree.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech,

that I live among the tents of the Kedar!

Too long have I lived

among those who hate peace.

I am a man of peace;

but when I speak, they are for war.

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