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." 8: For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. 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.
