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- {A Psalm of David.}
Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
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- Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.
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- Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips.
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- Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity;
and let me not eat of their dainties.
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- Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness;
and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.
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- When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
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- Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
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- For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes;
in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.
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- Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
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- Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that *I* withal pass over.
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