1 Lord, I call to you. Come quickly.Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be like incense placed before you.Let my praise be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, help me control my tongue.Help me be careful about what I say.
4 Don’t let me want to do evilor join others in doing wrong.Don’t let me eatwith those who do evil.
5 If a good man punished me, that would be kind.If he corrected me,that would be like having perfumed oil on my head.I shouldn’t refuse it.But I pray against those who do evil.
6 Let their leaders be thrown down the cliffs.Then people will know that I have spoken the truth: