Psalms - Chapter 141 | New International Version

  • 1. {A psalm of David.} O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.
  • 2. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
  • 3. Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
  • 4. 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.
  • 5. 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;
  • 6. their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
  • 7. They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. "
  • 8. But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge--do not give me over to death.
  • 9. Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers.
  • 10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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