Psalm 141:1-Psalm 142:1 - Protection From Sin And Sinners

¹ 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; 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, 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 my eyes [are] toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul. ⁹ Protect me from [the] {grasp} of [the] trap they have laid for me, and [from the] snares of evildoers. ¹⁰ Let [the] wicked fall into their nets, while I escape altogether.

¹ I cry out with my voice to Yahweh; I implore favor with my voice to Yahweh.