1 耶和华啊！ 我呼求你， 求你快来帮助我； 我呼求你的时候， 求你留心听我的声音。（本节在《马索拉抄本》包括细字标题）

2 愿我的祷告好像香安放在你面前； 愿我的手高举好像献晚祭。

3 耶和华啊！ 求你看守我的口， 把守我的嘴。

4 求你不要容我的心偏向恶事， 免得我和作孽的人一同行恶， 也不要使我吃他们的美食。

5 愿义人击打我， 这是出于慈爱； 愿他责备我， 这是膏我头的膏油， 我的头不会拒绝。我仍要为恶人的恶行祷告。

6 他们的官长被摔在山崖下的时候， 他们就要听我的话， 因为我的话甘美。

7 他们说： "我们的骨头被拋散在墓旁， 好像人犁田锄地时掘起的土块。"

8 主耶和华啊！ 我的眼睛仰望你； 我投靠你， 求你不要使我丧命。

9 求你保护我脱离恶人为我所设的网罗， 和作孽的人的圈套。

10 愿恶人都落在自己的网罗里， 我却得以安然逃脱。

1 Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me:

Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee;

The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth;

Keep the door of my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing,

To practise deeds of wickedness

With men that work iniquity:

And let me not eat of their dainties.

5 Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness;

And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head;

Let not my head refuse it:

For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.

6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock;

And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth,

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

8 For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord:

In thee do I take refuge; leave not my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,

And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

Whilst that I withal escape.