Psalms 141

¹Lord, I call to you. Come quickly.

Listen to me when I call to you.

²Let my prayer be like incense placed before you.

Let my praise be like the evening sacrifice.

³Lord, help me control my tongue.

Help me be careful about what I say.

⁴Don’t let me want to do evil

or join others in doing wrong.

Don’t let me eat

with those who do evil.

⁵If a good man punished me, that would be kind.

If he corrected me,

that would be like having perfumed oil on my head.

I shouldn’t refuse it.

But I pray against those who do evil.

⁶Let their leaders be thrown down the cliffs.

Then people will know that I have spoken the truth:

⁷“The ground is plowed and broken up.

In the same way, our bones have been scattered at the grave.”

⁸Lord God, I look to you for help.

I trust in you. Don’t let me die.

⁹Protect me from the traps they set for me

and from the net evil people have spread.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own pits.

And let me pass by safely.