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. |
141:2 | | Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering. |
141:3 | | O Lord, keep a watch over my mouth; keep the door of my lips. |
141:4 | | 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. |
141:5 | | 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. |
141:6 | | When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet. |
141:7 | | Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough. |
141:8 | | But my eyes are turned to you, O Lord God: my hope is in you; let not my soul be given up to death. |
141:9 | | Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil. |
141:10 | | Let the sinners be taken in the nets which they themselves have put down, while I go free. |