1
I call to you, Lord; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you.
2
Receive my prayer as incense, 1 my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3
Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
4
Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts.
5
Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
6
When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true.
7
Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
\\<>\\. 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.