1 A psalm of David.O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry!Listen when I cry to you for help!
2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
3 Take control of what I say, O Lord,and guard my lips.
4 Don’t let me drift toward evilor take part in acts of wickedness.Don’t let me share in the delicaciesof those who do wrong.
5 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 constantlyagainst the wicked and their deeds.
6 When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
7 Like rocks brought up by a plow,the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
8 I look to you for help, O Sovereign Lord.You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me,from the snares of those who do wrong.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,but let me escape.