1.O LORD, to you I call;
come quickly unto me.
Give ear unto my anxious voice
and hear me when I plead.

2.Like incense may my prayer
before your face arise—
the raising of my hands be like
the evening sacrifice.

3.Keep watch, LORD, o’er my mouth
and guard my lips, I pray;
let not my heart to evil thoughts
be drawn and led astray.

4. LORD, keep me from the deeds
that wicked men incite,
and keep me from their fellowship,
from eating their delights.

5.When just men strike me down,
it is a kind rebuke.
I take it as a soothing oil;
let not my head refuse.

6. I make my constant prayer
against their evil deeds.
Their leaders will be thrown from cliffs
in terrible defeat.

7. The wicked then will know
my words were spoken well.
Like ground that’s plowed, their bones are strewn
before the mouth of hell.

8. To you, O GOD, my Lord,
I look with longing eyes.
O leave me not defenseless now;
on you my soul relies.

9. O keep me from the trap
that evil men have set;
while I pass safely, let them fall,
ensnared in their own net.