Psalm 141

¹I cry out to you, LORD : Come to me—quickly!

Listen to my voice when I cry out to you!

²Let my prayer stand before you like incense;

let my uplifted hands be like the evening offering.

³Set a guard over my mouth, LORD ;

keep close watch over the door that is my lips.

⁴Don’t let my heart turn aside to evil things

⁵Instead, let the righteous discipline me;

let the faithful correct me!

Let my head never reject that kind of fine oil,

because my prayers are always against the deeds of the wicked.

⁶Their leaders will fall from jagged cliffs,

but my words will be heard because they are pleasing.

⁷Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave,[#141.7 LXX manuscripts, Syr their bones ; DSS (11QPs ) my bones; #141.7 Heb Sheol]

just like when the ground is broken up and plowed.

⁸But my eyes are on you, my LORD God.

I take refuge in you; don’t let me die!

⁹Protect me from the trap they’ve set for me;

protect me from the snares of the evildoers.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets—all together!—

but let me make it through safely.