| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | English Standard Version |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. |
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