1
Lord, I call to you. Come quickly. Listen to me when I call to you.
2
Let my prayer be like incense placed before you, and my praise like the evening sacrifice.
3
Lord, help me control my tongue; help me be careful about what I say.
4
Take away my desire to do evil or to join others in doing wrong. Don't let me eat tasty food with those who do evil.
5
If a good person punished me, that would be kind. If he corrected me, that would be like perfumed oil on my head. I shouldn't refuse it. But I pray against those who do evil.
6
Let their leaders be thrown down the cliffs. Then people will know that I have spoken correctly:
\\<>\\. 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.