Psalm 141

 

A psalm of David.

 

 

1                    O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me.  Hear my voice when I call to you.

 

2                    May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

 

3                    Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.

 

4                    Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

 

5                    Let a righteous man [a] strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil on my head.  My head will not refuse it.  Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;

 

6                    their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

 

7                    They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. [b] ”

 

8                    But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.

 

9                    Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers.

 

10               Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.