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Psalms 141
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1LORD, I call to you for help. Listen to me as I pray. Please hurry and help me!
- 2Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense, the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.
- 3LORD, help me control what I say. Don’t let me say anything bad.
- 4Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts.
- 5If good people correct me, I will consider it a good thing. If they criticize me, I will accept it like a warm welcome.[1] But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do.
- 6Let their judges be put to death.[2] Then everyone will know that I told the truth.
- 7Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed, so our bones will be scattered in the grave.
- 8My Lord GOD, I look to you for help. I look to you for protection; don’t let me die.
- 9Those evil people are trying to trap me. Don’t let me fall into their traps.
- 10Let the wicked fall into their own traps, while I walk away unharmed.