An Evening Prayer for Sanctification and Protection.
A Psalm of David.
LORD, I call upon You; ahurry to me.bListen to my voice when I call to You.Ps 22:19; 38:22; 70:5Ps 5:1; 143:12 Let my prayer be counted as aincense before You;The blifting up of my hands as the cevening offering. 1+@Tim 2:8; Rev 8:3, 4Ex 30:8; Luke 1:10; Rev 5:8; 8:3, 41 Tim 2:8Ex 29:39, 41; 1 Kin 18:29, 36; Dan 9:213 Set a aguard, O LORD, over my mouth;Keep watch over the bdoor of my lips to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly.Ps 34:13; 39:1; Prov 13:3; 21:23Mic 7:54 aDo not incline my heart to consent to or tolerate any evil thing,Or to practice deeds of wickednessWith men who bplan and do evil;And clet me not eat of their delicacies .Ps 119:36Is 32:6; Hos 6:8; Mal 3:15Prov 23:6
5 Let the arighteous thoughtfully strike me—it is a kindness done to encourage my spiritual maturity.bIt is the choicest anointing oil on the head;Let my head not refuse to accept and acknowledge and learn from it;For still my prayer is cagainst their wicked deeds. Prov 9:8; 19:25; 25:12; Gal 6:1Prov 9:8; 19:25; 25:12; 27:6; Eccl 7:5; Gal 6:1Ps 23:5; 133:2Ps 35:146 Their wicked, godless judges are athrown down the sides of the rocky cliff,And they who followed them will hear my words, for they are pleasant .2 Chr 25:127 As when the one aplows and breaks open the ground and the soil scatters behind him,Our bbones have been scattered at the cmouth of Sheol by the injustices of the wicked. 2+@Cor 1:9Ps 129:3Ps 53:5Num 16:32, 33; Ps 88:3-5
8 For my aeyes are toward You, O GOD, the Lord;In You I btake refuge; cdo not pour out my life nor leave me defenseless.Ps 25:15; 123:2Ps 2:12; 11:1Ps 27:99 Keep me from the ajaws of the trap which they have set for me,And from the bsnares of those who do evil.Ps 38:12; 64:5; 91:3; 119:110Ps 140:510 Let the wicked afall into their own nets,While I pass by and bsafely escape from danger.Ps 7:15; 35:8; 57:6Ps 124:7