1O Lord, I call upon thee: haste thee unto me: hear my voice, when I cry unto thee.
2Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting up of mine hands as an evening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips.
4Incline not mine heart to evil, that I should commit wicked works with them that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their delicates.
5Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefit: and let him reprove me, and it shall be a precious oil that shall not break mine head: for within a while I shall even pray in their miseries.
6When their judges shall be cast down in stony places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
7Our bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.
8But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leave not my soul destitute.
9Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10Let the wicked fall into his nets together, while I escape.