Psalm 141

A Psalm by David.

141 Yahweh, I have called on you.

    Come to me quickly!

    Listen to my voice when I call to you.

2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense;

    the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth.

    Keep the door of my lips.

4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,

    to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.

    Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;

    let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;

    don’t let my head refuse it;

    Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.

    They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

7 “As when one plows and breaks up the earth,

    our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord.

    In you, I take refuge.

    Don’t leave my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,

    from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets

    while I pass by.