PLEA FOR RELIEF FROM BITTER FOES
from the Bible: Psalm 120
(New King James Version)
In my distress I cried to the LORD,
And He heard me.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips
And from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given to you,
Or what shall be done to you,
You false tongue?
Sharp arrows of the warrior,
With coals of the broom tree!
Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech,
That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
My soul has dwelt too long
With one who hates peace.
I am for peace;
But when I speak, they are for war.
My younger brother Roger,
who is jealous of me
and who has long been jealous of me,
is my bitter foe.
I need relief from my bitter foe,
my jealous, younger brother Roger.
