My Prayer as Incense Before You

¹O Yahweh, I call upon You; hasten to me!

Give ear to my voice when I call to You!

²May my prayer be established as incense before You;

The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

³Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;[#141:3 Lit to]

Keep watch over the door of my lips.

⁴Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,

To practice deeds in wickedness

With men who are workers of iniquity;

And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵¶Let the righteous smite me in lovingkindness and reprove me;

It is oil upon the head;

Let not my head refuse it,

For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.

⁶Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the cliff,

And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.

⁷As when one plows and splits open the earth,

Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

⁸¶For my eyes are toward You, O Yahweh, O Lord;

In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soul to death .

⁹Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,[#141:9 Lit hands]

And from the snares of workers of iniquity.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

As for myself—meanwhile, I am passing by.