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A psalm of David.
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!
O LORD, I call upon You; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to You!
Give ear to my voice when I call to You!
Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
May my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.
and guard my lips.
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Don’t let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
To practice deeds of wickedness
With men who do iniquity;
And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
To practice deeds of wickedness
With men who do iniquity;
And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don’t let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don’t let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.
Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;
It is oil upon the head;
Do not let my head refuse it,
For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.
It is oil upon the head;
Do not let my head refuse it,
For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.
When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock,
And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.
And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.
As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
For my eyes are toward You, O GOD, the Lord;
In You I take refuge; do not leave me defenseless.
In You I take refuge; do not leave me defenseless.
Keep me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do wrong.
from the snares of those who do wrong.
Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.