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Psalms 141

An Evening Prayer

1I call to you, LORD; help me now!

Listen to me when I call to you.

2Receive my prayer as incense,

my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.

Notes for verses 1–21 entry

Cross-references

3LORD, place a guard at my mouth,

a sentry at the door of my lips.

4Keep me from wanting to do wrong

and from joining evil people in their wickedness.

May I never take part in their feasts.

5Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness,

but I will never accept honour from evil people,

because I am always praying against their evil deeds.

6When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,

the people will admit that my words were true.

7Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,

so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.

Notes for verses 5–71 entry

Text notes

8But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign LORD.

I seek your protection;

don't let me die!

9Protect me from the traps they have set for me,

from the snares of those evildoers.

10May the wicked fall into their own traps

while I go by unharmed.

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