1. A gradual canticle.In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.
2. O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
3. What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue.
4. The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.
5. Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of cedar: