Translations
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
O YHWH, deliver me from lying lips, from a treacherous tongue.
O Yahweh, rescue my very life from lips that lie, from a tongue soaked in treachery.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
Footnotes
Nafshi is the whole self, the breathing being, even "throat" as the bodily seat of speech and life. The irony cuts deep: the psalmist's nefesh his very throat cries out against the weapon of false tongues. Sheker is outright falsehood; remiyah is sly, treacherous deceit—the two-faced speech that corrodes trust and destroys reputation. F.O.G.M. renders nafshi as "my very life" to press the existential stakes of such slander and F.O.G. uses the more literal "me".

