Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Deliver my soul (Psalms 116:4 ), O Lord, from lying lips - from the Samaritans, who, by lying slanders, sought to destroy Israel's national life ("soul"), by preventing the erection of the temple, the religious and political center of the theocratic nation.
(And) from a deceitful tongue - literally, a deceit-tongue, a tongue all deceit (Psalms 119:60; Psalms 31:18). Compare Psalms 120:7, 'I peace;' I am wholly for peace.