Setting
I call upon the LORD in my distress;
Free Church of Scotland psalter · 10 10 10 10
The words
I call upon the LORD in my distress; He listens to my prayer and answers me. Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips And from all tongues that speak deceitfully.
What will he do to you, deceitful tongue? What more besides will be your fitting doom? With warriors’ arrows he will pierce you through, And punish you with burning coals of broom.
What misery to live in Meshech’s land, In Kedar’s tents, among my enemies! With people loving strife I’ve lived too long; They are for war, but I’m a man of peace.
Source & provenance
Free Church of Scotland psalter · psalter
An unedited transcription of the Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003) edition.
Full provenance & rights
- Base edition
- Sing Psalms (Free Church of Scotland, 2003)
- Editor
- Psalmody Committee of the Free Church of Scotland
- Editing
- unedited transcription
Rights
- Copyright
- rights-verified (display held); FCS terms recorded 2026-10-08 — verbatim text in a notated setting with independent tune MIDI is within terms (text free, FCS attribution displayed); copy/print/offline not granted; no audio derivatives
- Access
- free
- Display
- permitted
Tunes it can be sung to
2 tunes
Peace
curated well-matched10.10.10.10
Song 24
curated well-matched10.10.10.10
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