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1 LORD, I call to you;
come quickly to me.
Hear my voice when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense, the lifting of my hands like the evening offering.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart toward anything evil, to practice wicked deeds with those who do wrong;
do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head.
Let my head not refuse it, for my prayer is still against their evil deeds.
6 When their judges are thrown down the sides of the cliff, they will hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 As when the ground is plowed and broken up, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord;
in you I take refuge.
Do not pour out my life.
9 Keep me from the trap they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into his nets while I pass on.