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¹ I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me.
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
² Let my prayer be set before you as incense,
the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.
³ Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
⁴ Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice wicked deeds
with men who do iniquity;
and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
⁵ Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,
and let him chasten me.
It is oil for my head;^[b] let not my head refuse.
For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
⁶ When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,^[c]
then they will understand that my words were pleasant.
⁷ As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
⁸ But^[d] my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord;
I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.^[e]
9 Protect me from the grasp^[f] of the trap they have laid for me,
and from the snares of evildoers.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their^[g] nets,
while I escape altogether.