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Psalms 141 (GN)

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¹ I call to you, LORD; help me now! Listen to me when I call to you. ² Receive my prayer as incense, my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice. ³ LORD, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips. ⁴ Keep me from wanting to do wrong and from joining evil people in their wickedness. May I never take part in their feasts. ⁵ Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds. ⁶ When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs, the people will admit that my words were true. ⁷ Like wood that is split and chopped into bits, so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave. ⁸ But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign LORD. I seek your protection; don't let me die! ⁹ Protect me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those evildoers. ¹⁰ May the wicked fall into their own traps while I go by unharmed.