2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; The lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4
Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.
5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; Let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; Don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7
"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
\\<>\\. 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.