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My Prayer as Incense Before You

¹ O Yahweh, I call upon You; ^(C1)hasten to me!
^(C2)Give ear to my voice when I call to You!

² May my prayer be established as ^(C1)incense before You;
The ^(C2)lifting up of my hands as the ^(C3)evening offering.

³ Set a ^(C1)guard, O Yahweh, ^(F1)over my mouth;
Keep watch over the ^(C2)door of my lips.

^4 (C1)Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
To practice deeds in wickedness
With men who are ^(C2)workers of iniquity;
And ^(C3)do not let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵ Let the ^(C1)righteous smite me in lovingkindness and reprove me;
It is ^(C2)oil upon the head;
Let not my head refuse it,
^(F1)For still my prayer ^(C3)is ^(F2)against their evil deeds.

⁶ Their judges are ^(C1)thrown down by the sides of the cliff,
And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.

⁷ As when one ^(C1)plows and splits open the earth,
Our ^(C2)bones have been scattered at the ^(C3)mouth of Sheol.

⁸ For my ^(C1)eyes are toward You, O Yahweh, O Lord;
In You I ^(C2)take refuge; ^(C3)do not pour out my soul to death.

⁹ Keep me from the ^(F1)(C1)jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the ^(C2)snares of workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked ^(C1)fall into their own nets,
As for myself—meanwhile, ^(C2)I am passing by.