[1] LORD, I call to you for help. Listen to me as I pray. Please hurry and help me! [2] Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense, the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice. [3] LORD, help me control what I say. Don't let me say anything bad. [4] Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts. [5] If good people correct me, I will consider it a good thing. If they criticize me, I will accept it like a warm welcome. But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do. [6] Let their judges be put to death. Then everyone will know that I told the truth. [7] Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed, so our bones will be scattered in the grave. [8] My Lord GOD, I look to you for help. I look to you for protection; don't let me die. [9] Those evil people are trying to trap me. Don't let me fall into their traps. [10] Let the wicked fall into their own traps, while I walk away unharmed.
