May God grant us that we resist the seduction of the world around us but that also we listen to those who correct us.
1Lord, I call on you, hasten to help me! Listen to my plea when I call to you.
2Let my prayer rise to you like incense, as I lift up my hands as in an evening sacrifice.
3O Lord, set a guard at my mouth, keep watch at the gate of my lips.
4Let not my heart be drawn to evil; let me not be enticed into evil acts in company with sinners, and let me not partake of their delights.
5Rather the reproach and the just scourge, than the oil of the wicked anointing my head.
6When their rulers are flung upon the rock, only then will these wicked learn that I was tolerant with them,
7when the earth opens to swallow them and their bones are scattered at the edge of the netherworld.
8But my eyes are turned to you, O God, my Lord; strip me not of life, for you are my refuge.
9Keep me from the trap they have set for me, keep me from the net laid by evildoers.
10Let the wicked fall into their own snares, while I alone escape safe and free.
