1 I call to you, Lord; come fast! Listen to my voice when I cry to you.
2 Let my prayer be as incense before you, and lift up my hand like the evening offering.
3 LORD, put a guard in my mouth; Watch the door of my lips.
4 Let not my heart turn to evil, nor let me engage in wicked practices with evildoers. May I never attend your banquets!
5 Let the righteous strike me with loyal love, and rebuke me, but let not my head scent the oil of the wicked, for my prayer is against the practices of evildoers.
6 When they fall into the hands of the Rock, their judge, they will hear my words with appreciation.
7 As the earth is plowed and split, so its bones were scattered at the entrance to the grave.
8 But my eyes are fixed upon thee, O Sovereign Lord; I take refuge in you; don't give me to death.
9 Keep me from the snares they have set against me, from the snares of them that do evil.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own net while I escape unscathed.