1 A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly ! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense ; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 Don’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.
5 Let 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.
6 Their 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.” Notesn1 Sheol is the place of the dead.
8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.