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