Psalm 141

¹LORD, I have called on you.

Come to me quickly!

Listen to my voice when I call to you.

²Let my prayer be set before you like incense;

the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

³Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth.

Keep the door of my lips.

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

to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.

Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵Let 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.

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

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

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

our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

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

I take refuge in you.

Don’t leave my soul destitute.

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

from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall together into their own nets

while I pass by.