In My Distress (120)

`LORD_, I have called on you. Come to me / quick~ ly!

`Listen to my voice_ when I / call to you.

`Let my prayer be set before you like_ / in~ cense;

the `lifting up_ of my hands_ like the evening / sacrifice.

`Set a watch, O LORD, be / fore my mouth.

`Keep the door_ / of my lips.

`Do not let my heart be drawn to any / evil thing,

to `practice deeds of wickedness with those who work in / iquity. • • `Do not let me eat_ of their deli / ca~ cies.

(Ref)

`Let the righteous strike me, / it is kindness;

`let_ him re / prove~ me, 

`it is like_ oil_ / on the head; • `do not let my head re / fuse~ it;

`For my prayer is always against / evil deeds. +

`When their rulers are thrown down_ / from the cliffs

`they will learn_ that my / words were true.

As `when one plows and breaks_ / up the earth, 

our `bones are scattered at the / mouth of Sheol.

But `my eyes are on you_, / LORD, my Lord.

`I take refuge in you. Do not / let me die.

`Keep me from the snare which they have / laid for me,

`from the traps_ of the workers of in / iquity.

`Let the wicked fall together into / their own nets

`while_ / I pass by.