Psalm 141

Revised Geneva Translation

141 O LORD, I call upon You! Hurry to me! Hear my voice when I cry to You!

² Let my prayer be directed in Your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

³ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

⁴ Do not incline my heart to evil, so that I would commit wicked works with those who work iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵ Let the righteous strike me; for that is a benefit. And let him reprove me; it shall be as a precious oil that shall not break my head. For after a while, I shall even pray in their miseries.

⁶ When their judges are cast down in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

⁷ Our bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, as he who hews or digs in the earth.

⁸ But my eyes look to You, O LORD God. In You is my trust. Do not leave my soul destitute.

⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape. A Psalm of David, to give instruction; and a prayer when he was in the cave