O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you. 1
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. 2
Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. 3
Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies. 4
Let a righteous man strike me,it is a kindness; let him rebuke me,it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers; 5
their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken. 6
They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. " 7
But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge,do not give me over to death. 8
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers. 9
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety. 10