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Prayer for Safekeeping from Wickedness
A Psalm of David.
Lord, I cry out to You;
Make haste to me!
Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.
A Psalm of David.
Lord, I cry out to You;
Make haste to me!
Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.
A psalm of David.
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!
Let my prayer be set before You as incense,
The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.
and guard my lips.
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
To practice wicked works
With men who work iniquity;
And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
To practice wicked works
With men who work iniquity;
And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
Don’t let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
Let the righteous strike me;
It shall be a kindness.
And let him rebuke me;
It shall be as excellent oil;
Let my head not refuse it.
For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.
It shall be a kindness.
And let him rebuke me;
It shall be as excellent oil;
Let my head not refuse it.
For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.
Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don’t let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don’t let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.
When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,
As when one plows and breaks up the earth.
As when one plows and breaks up the earth.
I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,
And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Keep me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do wrong.
from the snares of those who do wrong.