³ Guard my mouth, O Eternal One;
    control what I say.
    Keep a careful watch on every word I speak.
⁴ Don’t allow my deepest desires to steer me toward doing what is wrong
    or associating with wicked people
Or joining in their wicked works
    or tasting any of their pleasures.

⁵ Let those who do right strike me down in kindness
    and correct me in love.
Their kind correction washes over my head like pure oil;
    do not let me be foolish and refuse such compassion.
    Still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked:
⁶ Their judges will be thrown from the edges of cliffs and crushed upon the rocks below,
    and the wicked will hear my words and realize that what I said was pleasing.
⁷ Just as when a farmer plows and breaks open the earth, leaving clumps of dirt scattered along the rows,
    our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave.

⁸ My gaze is fixed upon You, Eternal One, my Lord;
    in You I find safety and protection.
    Do not abandon me and leave me defenseless.
⁹ Protect me from the jaws of the trap my enemies have set for me
    and from the snares of those who work evil.
¹⁰ May the wicked be caught in their own nets
    while I alone escape unharmed.