New Living Translation

Psalms • Chapter 141

1 O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!<br>Listen when I cry to you for help!<br> 2 Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,<br>and my upraised hands as an evening offering.<br> 3 Take control of what I say, O LORD,<br>and guard my lips.<br> 4 Don’t let me drift toward evil<br>or take part in acts of wickedness.<br>Don’t let me share in the delicacies<br>of those who do wrong.<br> 5 Let the godly strike me!<br>It will be a kindness!<br>If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.<br>Don’t let me refuse it.<br> But I pray constantly<br>against the wicked and their deeds.<br> 6 When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,<br>the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.<br> 7 Like rocks brought up by a plow,<br>the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.<br> 8 I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.<br>You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.<br> 9 Keep me from the traps they have set for me,<br>from the snares of those who do wrong.<br> 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,<br>but let me escape.<br>