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 to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me 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; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.3Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over 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 what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat 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 a righteous man strike me--that is a kindness; let him rebuke me--that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.6Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.7They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave."
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, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge--do not give me over to death.
9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.9Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
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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