Psalm 141

Psalm 141

1. A psalm of David. 1 1 O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! 1 Listen when I cry to you for help!

2. Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, 2 and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

3. Take control of what I say, O Lord, 3 and guard my lips.

4. Don’t let me drift toward evil 4 or take part in acts of wickedness. 4 Don’t let me share in the delicacies 4 of those who do wrong.

5. Let the godly strike me! 5 It will be a kindness! 5 If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. 5 Don’t let me refuse it. 5 But I pray constantly 5 against the wicked and their deeds.

6. When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, 6 the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

7. Like rocks brought up by a plow, 7 the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.[a]

8. I look to you for help, O Sovereign Lord. 8 You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.

9. Keep me from the traps they have set for me, 9 from the snares of those who do wrong.

10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, 10 but let me escape.

Footnotes:
a. 141:7: Hebrew our bones will be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.