1 Prayer for Safekeeping from Wickedness A Psalm of David. Lord , I cry out to You; Make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.
2 Let my prayer be set before You 1 Kin. 8:45; Ps. 9:4 as incense, (Ex. 30:8); Luke 1:10; (Rev. 5:8; 8:3, 4) The lifting up of my hands as Ps. 134:2; (1 Tim. 2:8) the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard, O Lord , over my Ex. 29:39, 41;1 Kin. 18:29, 36; Dan. 9:21 mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice wicked works With men who work iniquity; (Prov. 13:3; 21:23) And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Prov. 23:6 Let the righteous strike me; It shall be a kindness. And let him rebuke me; It shall be as excellent oil; Let my head not refuse it. For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.
6 Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff, And they hear my words, for they are sweet.
7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave, As when one plows and breaks up the earth.
8 But (Prov. 9:8; Eccl. 7:5; Gal. 6:1) my eyes are upon You, O G od the Lord; In You I take refuge; Do not leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from 2 Chr. 20:12; Ps. 25:15 the snares they have laid for me, And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Ps. 119:110 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I escape safely.