Psalm 141
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1O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!1A psalm of David. O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!
2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.2May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!
3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.3O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!
4Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.4Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies.
5Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.5May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.6They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
7Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.8Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!
9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.
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Psalm 140
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