Psalms 141 / 150
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(Give Ear to My Voice)A Psalm of David.
O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
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Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
- 3
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!
- 4
Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!
- 5
Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me--it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
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When their judges are thrown over the cliff,
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
- 7
As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
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But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
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Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!
- 10
Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.