Psalm 141

1 A Psalm of David. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> O YHWH, I call to You—hurry to me; give ear to my voice in my calling out to You!

2 Let my prayer be established like incense before Your face, [and] the lifting of my hands like the offering of the evening.

3 Set, O YHWH, a guard for my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

4 Do not make my heart bend to an evil thing, to do works in wickedness, with men working iniquity; never shall I eat of their delicacies!

5 Let a righteous one strike me, and let him rebuke me [in] loving devotion; [it is] oil for my head—let not my head refuse [it]! For still my prayer [is] against their evil deeds.

6 Let their judges be released into the hands of the rock, and let them hear my words, for they are pleasant!

7 Like the tilling and ripping up of the land, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

8 Yet unto You, O YHWH, O Lord, [are] my eyes; in You I take refuge—do not lay bare my soul!

9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of the workers of iniquity!

10 Let the wicked fall into their nets together, until I pass over.