Psalms 141
141
An Evening Prayer#Ps 141 Hebrew title: A psalm by David.
1I call to you, LORD; help me now!
Listen to me when I call to you.
2 #
Rev 5.8
Receive my prayer as incense,
my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3 LORD, place a guard at my mouth,
a sentry at the door of my lips.
4Keep me from wanting to do wrong
and from joining evil people in their wickedness.
May I never take part in their feasts.
5Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness,
but I will never accept honour from evil people,
because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
6When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,
the people will admit that my words were true.
7Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,
so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.#141.7 Verses 5–7 in Hebrew are unclear.
8But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign LORD.
I seek your protection;
don't let me die!
9Protect me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those evildoers.
10May the wicked fall into their own traps
while I go by unharmed.
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Psalms 141
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Psalm 141
A Psalm of David.
1¶ Lord, I have called unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the gift of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O Lord, upon my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to do works with ungodliness with the men that work iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.
5¶ Let the righteous smite me in mercy, and let him reprove me: and let not a flattering evil prince anoint my head, for my prayer shall ever be against his evil.
6Their judges shall be thrown down from strong places; they shall hearken unto my words; for they are sweet.
7Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cuts and cleaves wood upon the earth.
8Therefore mine eyes look unto thee, O GOD the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
9Keep me from the hands of the snare which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the workers of iniquity.
10Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, whilst I pass on ahead forever.
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