An Evening Prayer for Sanctification and Protection.
A Psalm of David.
O LORD, I call upon You; ahasten to me!bGive ear to my voice when I call to You!Ps 22:19; 38:22; 70:5Ps 5:1; 143:12 May my prayer be 1counted as aincense before You;The blifting up of my hands as the cevening offering.Lit fixedEx 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, 1over my mouth;Keep watch over the bdoor of my lips.Lit toPs 34:13; 39:1; Prov 13:3; 21:23Mic 7:54 aDo not incline my heart to any evil thing,To practice deeds 1of wickednessWith men who bdo iniquity;And cdo not let me eat of their delicacies.Lit inPs 119:36Is 32:6; Hos 6:8; Mal 3:15Prov 23:6
5 Let the arighteous smite me 1in kindness and reprove me;It is boil upon the head;Do not let my head refuse it,2For still my prayer cis 3against their wicked deeds.Or lovinglyLit And my prayerOr in spite of their calamitiesProv 9:8; 19:25; 25:12; 27:6; Eccl 7:5; Gal 6:1Ps 23:5; 133:2Ps 35:146 Their judges are athrown down by the sides of the rock,And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.2 Chr 25:127 As when one aplows and breaks open the earth,Our bbones have been scattered at the cmouth of 1Sheol.I.e. the nether worldPs 129:3Ps 53:5Num 16:32, 33; Ps 88:3-5
8 For my aeyes are toward You, O 1GOD, the Lord;In You I btake refuge; cdo not 2leave me defenseless.Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORDLit pour out my soulPs 25:15; 123:2Ps 2:12; 11:1Ps 27:99 Keep me from the 1ajaws of the trap which they have set for me,And from the bsnares of those who do iniquity.Lit hands of the trapPs 38:12; 64:5; 91:3; 119:110Ps 140:510 Let the wicked afall into their own nets,While I pass by 1bsafely.Lit altogetherPs 7:15; 35:8; 57:6Ps 124:7