1 Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me.

Listen to me when I call to you.

2 May my prayer be like incense before you;

may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.

3 Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth;

guard the door of my lips.

4 Do not let my heart desire any evil thing

or participate in sinful activities

with men who behave wickedly.

May I not eat any of their delicacies.

5 Let a righteous man hit me; it will be a kindness to me.

Let him correct me; it will be like oil on my head;

may my head not refuse to accept it.

But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.

6 Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs;

they will hear that my own words are pleasant.

7 They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground,

so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

8 Surely my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord;

in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.

9 Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me,

from the traps of evildoers.

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets

while I escape.