4
Don't let my heart turn aside to evil things so that I don't do wicked things with evildoers, so I don't taste their delicacies.
5
Instead, let the righteous discipline me; let the faithful correct me! Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil, because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.
6
Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs, but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.
7
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave, just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.
8
But my eyes are on you, my LORD God. I take refuge in you; don't let me die!
9
Protect me from the trap they've set for me; protect me from the snares of the evildoers.
10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!— but let me make it through safely.
\\<>\\. This psalm was written about the same time, and upon the same occasion, as that going before and what follows after; even when David was persecuted by Saul, and when he was in great danger of his enemies, and snares were laid for his life.