and give you attention when I cry to you.
2 My prayer be as incense accepted by you;
as off'ring at ev'ning be my lifted hands.
3 O LORD, set a guard on my mouth, watch my lips;
4 my heart keep away from all evil desires.
Keep me back from evil and from evil men,
and let me not love to sit down at their feasts.
5 Let righteous ones strike me - a kindness it proves;
and if he rebuke me - it's oil on my head;
and I'll not refuse it, yet still I will pray
that evil ones' deeds will be quite overthrown.
6 The leaders of evil down cliffs will be thrown;
the wicked will learn that my words are all true.
7 they'll say, "Like one ploughing and breaking the earth,
our bones have been scattered in reach of hell's jaws."
8 But my eyes see you, Sovereign LORD, you're my hope;
9 Don't let me see death, keep me out of man's snares.
10 But let wicked ones in their own nets be caught,
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