Give Ear to My Voice

^{A PSALM OF DAVID.} 

¹ O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

² Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

³ Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!

⁴ Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!

⁵ Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kind ness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

⁶ When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

⁷ As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

⁸ But my eyes are towards you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenceless!

⁹ Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.