[1] I cry out to you, LORD: Come to me—quickly! Listen to my voice when I cry out to you! [2] Let my prayer stand before you like incense; let my uplifted hands be like the evening offering. [3] Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep close watch over the door that is my lips. [4] Don’t let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don’t do wicked things with evildoers, so I don’t taste their delicacies. [5] Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked. [6] Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing. [7] Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed. [8] But my eyes are on you, my LORD God. I take refuge in you; don’t let me die! [9] Protect me from the trap they’ve set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers. [10] Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!—but let me make it through safely.
