Psalms 140:1-9

¹(141) A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you.

²Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

³Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.

⁴Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.

⁵The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.

⁶Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

⁷As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

⁸For my eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.

⁹Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.