Psalm 141
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1O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!1A Davidic psalm. LORD, I call on You; hurry to help me. Listen to my voice when I call on You.
2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.2May my prayer be set before You as incense, the raising of my hands as the evening offering.
3Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.3 LORD, set up a guard for my mouth; keep watch at the door 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 my heart turn to any evil thing or perform wicked acts with men who commit sin. Do not let me feast on 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.5Let the righteous one strike me-- it is an act of faithful love; let him rebuke me-- it is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. Even now my prayer is against the evil acts of the wicked.
6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.6When their rulers will be thrown off the sides of a cliff, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasing.
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, turning up rocks, so our bones have been 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.8But my eyes look to You, Lord GOD. I seek refuge in You; do not let me die.
9Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.9Protect me from the trap they have set for me, and from the snares of evildoers.
10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
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Psalm 140
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