1 Yahweh, I have called on you.

Come to me quickly!

Listen to my voice when I call to you.

2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense;

the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth.

Keep the door of my lips.

4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,

to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.

Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;

let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;

don’t let my head refuse it;

Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

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

They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth,

our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord.

I take refuge in you.

Don’t leave my soul destitute.

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

from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets

while I pass by.

1 'n Psalm van Dawid. HERE, ek roep U aan; kom tog gou na my toe; luister na my stem as ek U aanroep.

2 Laat my gebed soos reukwerk voor u aangesig staan, die opheffing van my hande soos die aandoffer.

3 HERE, stel 'n wag voor my mond, bewaar die deur van my lippe.

4 Neig my hart nie tot iets wat sleg is, om in goddeloosheid dinge te doen saam met manne wat ongeregtigheid werk nie; en laat my van hulle lekkernye nie eet nie.

5 Laat die regverdige my met liefde slaan en my tugtig -- hoofsalf sal my hoof nie weier nie; want nog is my gebed teen hulle booshede.

6 As hulle regters aan die kant van die rots afgegooi word, dan sal hulle hoor dat my woorde lieflik is.

7 Soos 'n mens in die aarde vore en skeure trek, is ons beendere gestrooi by die mond van die doderyk.

8 Want op U is my oë, HERE Here; by U skuil ek: giet my siel nie uit nie!

9 Bewaar my vir die mag van die vangnet van die wat vir my strikke stel, en vir die strikke van die werkers van ongeregtigheid.

10 Laat die goddelose in hulle vangkuile val, almal saam, terwyl ,k verbygaan!