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¹ Lord, I call to you for help.
    Listen to me as I pray.
    Please hurry and help me!
² Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense,
    the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.

³ Lord, help me control what I say.
    Don't let me say anything bad.
⁴ Take away any desire to do evil.
    Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong.
    Help me stay away from their feasts.
⁵ If good people correct me,
    I will consider it a good thing.
If they criticize me,
    I will accept it like a warm welcome.^[a]
But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do.
⁶ Let their judges be put to death.^[b]
    Then everyone will know that I told the truth.

⁷ Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed,
    so our bones will be scattered in the grave.
⁸ My Lord God, I look to you for help.
    I look to you for protection; don't let me die.
⁹ Those evil people are trying to trap me.
    Don't let me fall into their traps.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own traps,
    while I walk away unharmed.