Psalms 141

LEB(i) 1 A psalm of David.*
I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me. Listen to my voice when I call to you. 2 Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering. 3 Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies. 5 Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. It is oil for my head;* let not my head refuse. For still my prayer is against their evil deeds. 6 When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,* then they will understand that my words were pleasant. 7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 8 But* my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.* 9 Protect me from the grasp* of the trap they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers. 10 Let the wicked fall into their* nets, while I escape altogether.