Psalm 141
1 I call to you, Lord, come quicklyt to me;
hear meu when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;v
may the lifting up of my handsw be like the evening sacrifice.x
3 Set a guard over my mouth,y Lord;
keep watch over the door of my lips.z
4 Do not let my hearta be drawn to what is evil
so that I take part in wicked deedsb
along with those who are evildoers;
do not let me eat their delicacies.c
5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
let him rebuke med—that is oil on my head.e
My head will not refuse it,
for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.
6 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,f
and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 They will say, “As one plowsg and breaks up the earth,h
so our bones have been scattered at the mouthi of the grave.”
8 But my eyes are fixedj on you, Sovereign Lord;
in you I take refugek—do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me safel from the traps set by evildoers,m
from the snaresn they have laid for me.
10 Let the wicked fallo into their own nets,
while I pass by in safety.p