• 1. {A Psalm of David.}<br>
    Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
  • 2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
  • 3. Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
  • 4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.
  • 5. Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.
  • 6. When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
  • 7. Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
  • 8. For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.
  • 9. Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
  • 10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over.