Psalm 141
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1O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!1A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
4Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.4Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
5Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.5Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.6When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
7Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.8But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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