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Psalm 141
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A praise song of David.

141 Lord, I call to you for help.
    Listen to me as I pray.
    Please hurry and help me!
2 Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense,
    the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.

3 Lord, help me control what I say.
    Don’t let me say anything bad.
4 Take away any desire to do evil.
    Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong.
    Help me stay away from their feasts.
5 If good people correct me,
    I will consider it a good thing.
If they criticize me,
    I will accept it like a warm welcome.[a]
But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do.
6 Let their judges be put to death.[b]
    Then everyone will know that I told the truth.

7 Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed,
    so our bones will be scattered in the grave.
8 My Lord God, I look to you for help.
    I look to you for protection; don’t let me die.
9 Those evil people are trying to trap me.
    Don’t let me fall into their traps.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own traps,
    while I walk away unharmed.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 141:5 a warm welcome Or “like oil poured over my head.”
  2. Psalm 141:6 Let their judges … to death Or “Let their judges be thrown from the cliffs.”
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Psalm 141

A psalm of David.

1 I call to you, Lord, come quickly(A) to me;
    hear me(B) when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;(C)
    may the lifting up of my hands(D) be like the evening sacrifice.(E)

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

5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me(K)—that is oil on my head.(L)
My head will not refuse it,
    for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

6 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,(M)
    and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 They will say, “As one plows(N) and breaks up the earth,(O)
    so our bones have been scattered at the mouth(P) of the grave.”

8 But my eyes are fixed(Q) on you, Sovereign Lord;
    in you I take refuge(R)—do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me safe(S) from the traps set by evildoers,(T)
    from the snares(U) they have laid for me.
10 Let the wicked fall(V) into their own nets,
    while I pass by in safety.(W)

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