Psalms 141
1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry 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 set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an 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 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.
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 righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
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 mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
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 a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (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 mine eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.
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 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.
10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free.
