| Chapter 141 |
1 | A Psalm. Of David.
Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you. |
2 | Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering. |
3 | O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips. |
4 | Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things. |
5 | Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer. |
6 | When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet. |
7 | Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough. |
8 | But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death. |
9 | Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil. |
10 | Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free. |