1The song of the stairs When I am in trouble, I call upon the LORD, and he answereth me.
2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4Even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.
5Who is me that my banishment endureth so long: I dwell in the tabernacles of the sorrowful.
6My soul hath long dwelt among them, that be enemies unto peace.
7I laboured for peace, but when I spake thereof, they made them to battle.