Give Ear to My Voice

A Psalm of David.

¹O Lord, I call upon you; thasten to me!

Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

²Let umy prayer be counted as incense before you,

and vthe lifting up of my hands as wthe evening sacrifice!

³xSet a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;

ykeep watch over the door of my lips!

⁴zDo not let my heart incline to any evil,

to busy myself with wicked deeds

in company with men who awork iniquity,

and blet me not eat of their delicacies!

⁵cLet a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;

let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;

let my head not refuse it.

Yet dmy prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

⁶When their judges are ethrown over the cliff,1

then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

⁷As when one plows and breaks up the earth,

so shall our bones fbe scattered at the mouth of Sheol.2

⁸But gmy eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;

hin you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!3

⁹Keep me from ithe trap that they have laid for me

and from the snares of evildoers!

¹⁰Let the wicked jfall into their own nets,

while I pass by safely.