Psalm 141

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹ Lord, I call to you. Hurry to me.
Turn your ear toward my voice when I call to you.
² May my prayer linger before you like incense,
the lifting up of my hands like an evening offering.

³ Set a guard over my mouth, Lord.
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
⁴ Do not let my heart turn toward anything evil,
to take part in wicked deeds with men who do evil.
Let me not taste their delicacies.

⁵ Let a righteous man strike me—it is mercy.
Let him rebuke me—it is lotion^[a] on my head.
My head will not refuse it.

But my prayer is still against their evil deeds.
⁶ Their rulers will be thrown down by the sides of the cliff,
and they will hear that my words were pleasant.
⁷ They will say,^[b] “As one splits and breaks up the earth,
so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.”

⁸ But my eyes look to you, Lord God.^[c]
In you I take refuge. Do not take away my life.
⁹ Keep me from the snares they have set for me,
    from the traps of the evildoers.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.