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Psalms 141

A psalm of David.

O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!

Give Ear to My Voice

A Psalm of David.

O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!

Don’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.

Do 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!

Let 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.

Let 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.

When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

When their judges are thrown over the cliff,a
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

Like rocks brought up by a plow,
the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.a

As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.b

I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.

But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!c

Keep me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do wrong.

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
but let me escape.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.

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