Z Let my lips utter praise;

For thou teachest me thy statutes.

Z Let my tongue sing of thy word;

For all thy commandments are righteousness.

Z Let thine hand be ready to help me;

For I have chosen thy precepts.

Z I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD;
And thy law is my delight.

Z Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee;
And let thy judgements help me.

Z I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy ser

vant;

For I do not forget thy commandments.

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CXX-CXXXIV

THE SONGS OF ASCENTS

OR

HYMN BOOK OF THE PILGRIMS

CXX

The Exile's Cry

In

my distress I cried unto the LORD,

(And he answered me.)

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips,

And from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given unto thee,

And what shall be done more unto thee, thou deceitful tongue?

It is as the sharp arrows of the mighty man,

With coals of broom.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech,

That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

My soul hath long had her dwelling with him that

hateth peace:

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.