1
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
2
Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
3
Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
4
Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.
5
Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.
6
When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
\\<>\\. 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.