1Ein Psalm Davids. HERR, ich rufe zu dir. Komm schnell! Höre mich, wenn ich dich um Hilfe anflehe! (Ps 70,6)2Nimm mein Gebet als ein Räucheropfer an und meine erhobenen Hände als Abendopfer. (2Mo 29,41; 2Mo 30,8; Offb 5,8; Offb 8,3)3HERR, gib acht auf das, was ich rede, und wache über meine Lippen! (Ps 39,2; Spr 13,3; Spr 21,23)4Lass nicht zu, dass mich das Böse reizt und ich an den Taten derer teilhabe, die Böses tun. Lass mich keinen Genuss an ihren Delikatessen finden. (Ps 119,36; Spr 23,6; Mal 3,15)5Wenn ein Gottesfürchtiger mich züchtigt, wird es mir nur guttun! Sein Tadel ist wie lindernder Balsam, den ich freudig annehme. Während sie Böses tun, bete ich unablässig. (Ps 23,5; Spr 9,8; Spr 19,25; Spr 27,6; Gal 6,1)6Wenn ihre Anführer von den Klippen gestürzt werden, dann endlich werden sie einsehen, dass meine Worte wahr sind.7So wie ein Bauer die Erde pflügt, dass die Steine bloßliegen, werden die Gebeine der Bösen achtlos unter den Toten verstreut werden. (Ps 53,6)8Ich suche Hilfe bei dir, allmächtiger HERR. Du bist meine Zuflucht, lass nicht zu, dass sie mich töten. (Ps 11,1)9Bewahre mich vor den Fallen, die sie mir gestellt haben, rette mich vor den Fallstricken derer, die Böses tun. (Ps 91,3)10Lass die Gottlosen in ihre eigenen Fallen geraten, mich aber lass entkommen. (Ps 35,8)
1I call out to you, LORD. Come quickly to help me. Listen to me when I call out to you.2May my prayer come to you like the sweet smell of incense. When I lift up my hands in prayer, may it be like the evening sacrifice.3LORD, guard my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.4Don’t let my heart be drawn to what is evil. Don’t let me join with people who do evil. Don’t let me eat their fancy food.5If a godly person hit me, it would be an act of kindness. If they would correct me, it would be like pouring olive oil on my head. I wouldn’t say no to it. I will always pray against the things that sinful people do.6When their rulers are thrown down from the rocky cliffs, those evil people will realise that my words were true.7They will say, ‘As clumps of dirt are left from ploughing up the ground, so our bones will be scattered near an open grave.’8But LORD and King, I keep looking to you for help. I go to you for safety. Don’t let me die.9Keep me from the traps of those who do evil. Save me from the traps they have set for me.10Let evil people fall into their own nets. But let me go safely on my way.
1A Psalm of David. O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! (Ps 40,13; Ps 70,5)2Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! (2Mo 29,41; Ps 28,2; Lk 1,10; Offb 5,8; Offb 8,3)3Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! (Ps 34,13; Mi 7,5)4Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! (Ps 94,4; Ps 119,36; Ps 141,9; Spr 23,6)5Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. (Ps 109,4; Spr 9,8; Spr 19,25; Spr 25,12; Spr 27,6; Pred 7,5)6When their judges are thrown over the cliff,[1] then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. (2Chr 25,12; Lk 4,29)7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[2] (Ps 53,5; Hes 37,1)8But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless![3] (Ps 11,1; Ps 25,15)9Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! (Ps 140,5)10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. (Ps 7,15)