# Psalm 141 A Psalm of David. 
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1. O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! 
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2. Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 
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3. Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! 
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4. Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies! 
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5. Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. 
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6. When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant. 
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7. As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 
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8. But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! 
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9. Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! 
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10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely. 

(ESV)