2
Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
3
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4
Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
5
Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
6
When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
\\<>\\. 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.