3 Lord, help me control my tongue;help me be careful about what I say.
4 Take away my desire to do evilor to join others in doing wrong.Don’t let me eat tasty foodwith those who do evil.
5 If a good person punished me, that would be kind.If he corrected me, that would be like 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 correctly:
7 “The ground is plowed and broken up.In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave.”
8 God, I look to you for help.I trust in you, Lord. Don’t let me die.
9 Protect me from the traps they set for meand from the net that evil people have spread.