# Psalm 141 (New King James Version)
Prayer for Safekeeping from Wickedness

##### Chapter 141
###### 1 Lord, I cry out to You;  
Make haste to me!  
Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.  

###### 2 Let my prayer be set before You _as_ incense,  
The lifting up of my hands _as_ the evening sacrifice.

###### 3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;  
Keep watch over the door of my lips.  

###### 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,  
To practice wicked works  
With men who work iniquity;  
And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

###### 5 Let the righteous strike me;  
_It shall be_ a kindness.  
And let him rebuke me;  
_It shall be_ as excellent oil;  
Let my head not refuse it.
For still my prayer _is_ against the deeds of the wicked.  

###### 6 Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff,  
And they hear my words, for they are sweet.  

###### 7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,  
As when one plows and breaks up the earth.

###### 8 But my eyes _are_ upon You, O God the Lord;  
In You I take refuge;  
Do not leave my soul destitute.  

###### 9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,  
And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.  

###### 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,  
While I escape safely.