Psalm 141
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1O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!1A psalm of David. O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!
2Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!2May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!
3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!3O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!
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!4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
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.5May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
6When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.6They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
7As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!8Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!
9Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.
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