1 Lord, I call to you for help. Listen to me as I pray. Please hurry and help me!
2 Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense, the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, help me control what I say. Don’t let me say anything bad.
4 Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts.
5 If good people correct me, I will consider it a good thing. If they criticize me, I will accept it like a warm welcome. But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do.
6 Let their judges be put to death. Then everyone will know that I told the truth.
7 Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed, so our bones will be scattered in the grave.
8 My Lord GOD, I look to you for help. I look to you for protection; don’t let me die.
9 Those evil people are trying to trap me. Don’t let me fall into their traps.