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.
Currently Selected:
Psalms 141: GNBUK
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Good News Bible. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Psalms 141
141
Prayer for God’s Help in Maintaining Integrity
A psalm of David.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
1I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me.
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2Let my prayer be set before you as incense,
the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.
3Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice wicked deeds
with men who do iniquity;
and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
5Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,
and let him chasten me.
It is oil for my head;#Or “It is choice oil” let not my head refuse.
For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
6When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,#Or “are dropped into the hands of the Rock,” that is, Yahweh. The interpretation of vv. 6–7 is uncertain.
then they will understand that my words were pleasant.
7As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8But#Or “Because” my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord;
I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.#Or “Do not raze my life”
9Protect me from the grasp#Literally “hand” of the trap they have laid for me,
and from the snares of evildoers.
10Let the wicked fall into their#Hebrew “his” nets,
while I escape altogether.
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
2010 Logos Bible Software. Lexham is a registered trademark of Logos Bible Software