^1. Psalm 141 A psalm of David.

^1. O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you.

^2. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

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

^4. Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies.

^5. Let a righteous man [1] strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil on my head. My head will not refuse it. Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers;

^6. their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.

^7. [They will say,] "As one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. [2] "

^8. But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; in you I take refuge--do not give me over to death.

^9. Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, from the traps set by evildoers.

^10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.