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Psalm 141
- O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!
- Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
- Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.
- Don't let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don't let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
- Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don't let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.
- When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.
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Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.
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I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don't let them kill me.
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Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.
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Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
but let me escape.