Psalm 141

    A psalm of David.
 ¹ O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me.
   Hear my voice when I call to you.
² May my prayer be set before you like incense;
   may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
 ³ Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD;
   keep watch over the door of my lips.
⁴ Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil,
   to take part in wicked deeds
with men who are evildoers;
   let me not eat of their delicacies.
 ⁵ Let a righteous man^[a] strike me—it is a kindness;
   let him rebuke me—it is oil on my head.
   My head will not refuse it.
   Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;
 ⁶ their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,
   and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
⁷ They will say, “As one plows and breaks up the earth,
   so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.^[b]”
 ⁸ But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD;
   in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death.
⁹ Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,
   from the traps set by evildoers.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
   while I pass by in safety.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 141:5 Or Let the Righteous One
2. Psalm 141:7 Hebrew Sheol