- 1The Lord, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
- 2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
- 3Set a watch, the Lord, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
- 4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
- 5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
- 6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
- 7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
- 8For my eyes are on you, the Lord, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
- 9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
- 10Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.