Psalms 141
1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
A Psalm. Of David. Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
2 Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
3 O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.
5 The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
6 Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
7 as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell. (Sheol h7585)
Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough. (Sheol h7585)
8 For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death.
9 Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
10 The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.
Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
