UST PSA Chapter 141

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This is a psalm of David.

Yahweh, I call out to you; please help me quickly!

Please listen to me when I am calling out to you.

2 Please accept my prayer as though it were an offering of incense to you.

Please accept me while I lift up my hands to pray to you,

just as you accept the sacrifices that people offer to you each evening.

3 Yahweh, do not allow me to say things that are bad or wrong.

Do not allow me to say those things as a sentry does not allow the wrong people to go through a doorway.

4 Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong

and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds.

Do not even allow me to share in eating their delightful food!

5 It is all right if righteous people strike me

because they are acting faithfully and kindly toward me to correct me.

If they do that, it will be as if they have honored me by anointing my head with olive oil, and may I never refuse to accept it.

but I am always praying that you will punish the wicked because of the wicked deeds that they do.

6 When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs,

the wicked will hear what I am saying, and will know that what I am saying is right and good.

7 They will say, “Just as one scatters clods of earth when he breaks up the ground, soon our bodies will lie scattered on the way to the place where dead people are.”

8 But Lord Yahweh, I continue to rely on you.

I ask you to protect me;

please do not stop protecting my life!

9 People who do evil things are trying to trick me and destroy me.

It is as though they have laid out snares and set traps for me.

Please keep me safe from what they are trying to do to me.

10 I desire that wicked people fall together into the traps that they have set to catch me,

while, for my part, I escape from them.