A praise song of David.[654]
<1> Lord, I call to you for help.
Listen to me as I pray.
Please hurry and help me!
<2> Accept my prayer
like a gift of burning incense,
the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.[655]
<3> Lord, help me control what I say.
Don't let me say anything bad.
<4> Take away any desire to do evil.
Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong.
Help me stay away from their feasts.
<5> If good people correct me,
I will consider it a good thing.
If they criticize me,
I will accept it like a warm welcome.[656]
But my prayer will always be
against the wicked people and the evil they do.
<6> Let their judges be put to death.[657]
Then everyone will know that I told the truth.
<7> Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed,
so will our bones be scattered in the grave.
<8> Lord my Master, I look to you for help.
I look to you for protection; don't let me die.
<9> Those evil people are trying to trap me.
Don't let me fall into their traps.
<10> Let the wicked fall into their own traps,
while I walk away unharmed.
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