[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. In you, I take
refuge. 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.
Psalm 142 A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
