1A Psalm of David. Yehovah, I have called upon you; make haste to me: Give ear to my voice, when I call to you.
2Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O Yehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
4Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness With men who work iniquity: And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
5Let the righteous strike me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Do not let my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness my prayer shall continue.
6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock; And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8For my eyes are toward you, O Yehovah the Lord: In you I take refuge; do not leave my soul destitute.
9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I at the same time escape.