Psalm 141

World English Bible

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.”^[a]
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.