1
O LORD, I cry out to you, "Come quickly." Open your ears to me when I cry out to you.
2
Let my prayer be accepted as sweet-smelling incense in your presence. Let the lifting up of my hands in prayer be accepted as an evening sacrifice.
3
O LORD, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
4
Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil or to become involved with wickedness, with people who are troublemakers. Do not let me taste their delicacies.
5
A righteous person may strike me or correct me out of kindness. It is like lotion for my head. My head will not refuse it, because my prayer is directed against evil deeds.
6
When their judges are thrown off a cliff, they will listen to what I have to say. It will sound pleasant [to them].
\\<>\\. 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.