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Let my prayer be accepted
    as sweet-smelling incense in your presence.
    Let the lifting up of my hands in prayer be accepted
        as an evening sacrifice.

O Yahweh, set a guard at my mouth.
    Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Do not let me be persuaded to do anything evil
    or to become involved with wickedness,
        with people who are troublemakers.
            Do not let me taste their delicacies.

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May my prayer be set before you like incense;(A)
    may the lifting up of my hands(B) be like the evening sacrifice.(C)

Set a guard over my mouth,(D) Lord;
    keep watch over the door of my lips.(E)
Do not let my heart(F) be drawn to what is evil
    so that I take part in wicked deeds(G)
along with those who are evildoers;
    do not let me eat their delicacies.(H)

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