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¹ I call to you, Lord; help me now!
    Listen to me when I call to you.
^2 (a)Receive my prayer as incense,
    my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.

³ Lord, place a guard at my mouth,
    a sentry at the door of my lips.
⁴ Keep me from wanting to do wrong
    and from joining evil people in their wickedness.
May I never take part in their feasts.

⁵ Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness,
    but I will never accept honor from evil people,
    because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
⁶ When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,
    the people will admit that my words were true.
⁷ Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,
    so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.^[b]

⁸ But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord.
    I seek your protection;
    don't let me die!
⁹ Protect me from the traps they have set for me,
    from the snares of those evildoers.
¹⁰ May the wicked fall into their own traps
    while I go by unharmed.