Chapter 119

The Jews in captivity of Babylon, Christians in persecution, or other great tribulation, pray with confidence to be delivered from danger, and slander of wicked tongues, ℣.5 lamenting their long endurance.

1. 1

   A gradual Canticle. When I was in tribulation I cried to our Lord: and he heard me.

2. 2

   O Lord deliver my soul from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

3. 3

   What may be given thee, or what may be added unto thee to a deceitful tongue?

4. 4

   The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of desolation.

5. 5

   Woe is to me, that my sojourning is prolonged: I have dwelt with the inhabitants of Cedar:

6. 6

   My soul hath been long a sojourner.

7. 7

   With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spake to them, they impugned me without cause.