1
God, come close. Come quickly! Open your ears - it's my voice you're hearing!
2
Treat my prayer as sweet incense rising; my raised hands are my evening prayers.
3
Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at the door of my lips.
4
Don't let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong - don't let them lure me with their sweet talk!
5
May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don't let sin anoint my head. I'm praying hard against their evil ways!
6
Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music.
\\<>\\. 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.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.