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Psalms 141
Come to Me Quickly!
1O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you! 2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips! 4 Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!
5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. 6 When their judges are thrown over the cliff,
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. 7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! 9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers! 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.
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