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Psalms 141
Give Ear to My Voice
A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, I call upon you; (a)hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
2 Let (b)my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and (c)the lifting up of my hands as (d)the evening sacrifice!
3 (e)Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
(f)keep watch over the door of my lips!
4 (g)Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who (h)work iniquity,
and (i)let me not eat of their delicacies!
5 (j)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 (k)my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
6 When their judges are (l)thrown over the cliff,[a]
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones (m)be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[b]
8 But (n)my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
(o)in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless![c]
9 Keep me from (p)the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!
10 Let the wicked (q)fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.
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