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:
7 “The ground is plowed and broken up.In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave.”
8 Lord God, I look to you for help.I trust in you. Don’t let me die.