Psalm 141

¹O Lord, I call to you; come to me quickly; *hear my voice when I cry to you.

²Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, *the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

³Set a watch before my mouth, O Lord, and guard the door of my lips; *let not my heart incline to any evil thing.

⁴Let me not be occupied in wickedness with evildoers, *nor eat of their choice foods.

⁵Let the righteous smite me in friendly rebuke; let not the oil of the unrighteous anoint my head; *for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

⁶Let their rulers be overthrown in stony places, *that they may know my words are true.

⁷As when a plowman turns over the earth in furrows, *let their bones be scattered at the mouth of the grave.

⁸But my eyes are turned to you, Lord God; *in you I take refuge; do not strip me of my life.

⁹Protect me from the snare which they have laid for me *and from the traps of the evildoers.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, *while I myself escape.