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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
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A Song of the Ascents. Unto Jehovah in my distress I have called, And He answereth me.
2 Save me, LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
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O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
3 What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?
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What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!
4 He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.
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Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
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Wo to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.
6 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
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Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.
7 I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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I [am] peace, and when I speak they [are] for war!
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