1 Psalm 141 My Prayer as Incense Before You A Psalm of David.O Yahweh, I call upon You; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to You!
2 May my prayer be established as incense before You;The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
3 Set a guard, O Yahweh, 141:3Lit to over my mouth;Keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,To practice deeds in wickednessWith men who are workers of iniquity;And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
5 ¶Let the righteous smite me in lovingkindness and reprove me;It is oil upon the head;Let not my head refuse it, 141:5Lit And my prayer For still my prayer is 141:5Or in spite of their calamities against their evil deeds.
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the cliff,And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and splits open the earth,Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 ¶For my eyes are toward You, O Yahweh, O Lord;In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soulto death.
9 Keep me from the 141:9 Lit hands jaws of the trap which they have set for me,And from the snares of workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,As for myself—meanwhile, I am passing by.