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Prayer for God’s Help in Maintaining Integrity

A psalm of David.[a]

141 
I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me.

Listen to my voice when I call to you.

2 Let my prayer be set before you as incense,

the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.

3 Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;

keep watch over the door of my lips.

4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,

to practice wicked deeds

with men who do iniquity;

and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

5 Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,

and let him chasten me.

It is oil for my head;[b] let not my head refuse.

For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.

6 When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,[c]

then they will understand that my words were pleasant.

7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,

so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

8 But[d] my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord;

I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.[e]

9 Protect me from the grasp[f] of the trap they have laid for me,

and from the snares of evildoers.

10 Let the wicked fall into their[g] nets,

while I escape altogether.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 141:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm
  2. Psalm 141:5 Or “It is choice oil”
  3. Psalm 141:6 Or “are dropped into the hands of the Rock,” that is, Yahweh. The interpretation of vv. 6–7 is uncertain.
  4. Psalm 141:8 Or “Because”
  5. Psalm 141:8 Or “Do not raze my life”
  6. Psalm 141:9 Literally “hand”
  7. Psalm 141:10 Hebrew “his”