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Psalms 141 (NET)

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¹ O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me! Pay attention to me when I cry out to you! ² May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering! ³ O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips! ⁴ Do not let me have evil desires, or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. I will not eat their delicacies. ⁵ May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds. ⁶ They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant. ⁷ As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. ⁸ Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign LORD. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger! ⁹ Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set. ¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape.