Psalms 141 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help! O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! A psalm of David. I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.
2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering. Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips. Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Don’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. Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
5 Let 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. Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it, for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6 When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true. When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial. As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”
8 I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me. But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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