[1] Quick, Lord, answer me-for I have prayed. Listen when I cry to you for help! [2] Regard my prayer as my evening sacrifice and as incense wafting up to you. [3] Help me, Lord, to keep my mouth shut and my lips sealed. [4] Take away my lust for evil things; don't let me want to be with sinners, doing what they do, sharing their delicacies. [5] Let the godly smite me! It will be a kindness! If they reprove me, it is medicine! Don't let me refuse it. But I am in constant prayer against the wicked and their deeds. [6] When their leaders are condemned, and their bones are strewn across the ground, then these men will finally listen to me and know that I am trying to help them. [8] I look to you for help, O Lord God. You are my refuge. Don't let them slay me. [9] Keep me out of their traps. [10] Let them fall into their own snares, while I escape.
