Psalms 141
1 A psalm of David. Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!
A Psalm by David. LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6 They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
“As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (Sheol h7585)
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
