Psalms
141
- O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me.
Hear my voice when I call to you.
- May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
- Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep
watch over the door of my lips.
- 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.
- Let a righteous man 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;
- their rulers will be thrown down from the
cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
- They will say,"As one plows and breaks
up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave."
- But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign
LORD; in you I take refuge --
do not give me over to death.
- Keep me from the snares they have laid for
me, from the traps set by evildoers.
- Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by in safety.
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