| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! | 1A psalm of David. O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you! |
| 2Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! | 2May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering! |
| 3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! | 3O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips! |
| 4Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! | 4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies. |
| 5Let 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 my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. | 5May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds. |
| 6When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. | 6They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant. |
| 7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. | 7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. |
| 8But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! | 8Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger! |
| 9Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! | 9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set. |
| 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. | 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape. |
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