Psalms141

David earnestly cries to the Lord, seeking swift hearing and acceptance of his prayer as a sacrifice. He asks for divine guardianship over his speech and heart, lest he be drawn to evil or partake in the ways of the wicked. Trusting in God, he seeks deliverance from their snares, praying that the wicked themselves fall into their own traps while he escapes.

Invocation and Prayer as Sacrifice

1
A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.
2
Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.

Guarding the Mouth and Heart

3
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
4
Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

The Value of Righteous Rebuke

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Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.
6
When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.
7
Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth.

A Plea for Final Deliverance

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But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
9
Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
10
Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
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