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141:1 Accepting correction
Prayer for Preservation from Evil; An Evening Prayer
A song by David.
A psalm: for David; A psalm of David.; A Psalm of David.
141 Yahweh, I called out to you. Come quickly to me.
≈≈Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 May my prayer rise to your face like incense.[ref]
≈May my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth.
≈Guard the door which is my lips.
4 Don’t let my heart bend toward any evil thing
≈or participate in sinful activities
with men who behave wickedly.
May I not eat any of their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous person hit me—it would be a kindness.
≈Let them correct me—it will be soothing like ≈lotion on my head.
≈Help me not to be defiant,
because my prayer is always against ≈those who do wicked things.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs,
?@the people will listen to my words because they’re pleasant.
7 Like when someone ploughs and breaks up the ground,
so our bones have been scattered at the ≈entrance to the grave.
8 My eyes are on you, Yahweh, my master.
≈You’re my place of protection—don’t abandon my life.
9 Keep me from the trap that they’ve laid for me—
from the ≈nets of those who do evil.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets
while I escape.
↑ 141 A_song of_Dāvid\f + \fr 141:1 \ft Note: KJB: Ps.
141.
1\f* Oh_YHWH call_on_you hasten to/for_me give_ear my_sound/voice in/on/at/with_call_I to/for_you(fs).
2 May_it_be_established prayer_of_my incense to_your_face the_raising_of hands_of_my an_offering_of evening.
3 Set Oh_YHWH a_guard over_mouth_of_my keep_watch over the_door_of lips_of_my.
4 Do_not incline heart_of_my to_thing evil to_practice practices in/on/at/with_wicked with people who_do_of (of)_wickedness and_not I_will_eat in/on/at/with_delicacies_of_their.
5 Strike_me a_righteous_person loyalty and_rebuke_me oil_of head not my_head let_it_refuse if/because still and_prayer_of_my in/on/at/with_wicked_deeds_of_their.
6 They_have_been_thrown_down in/on/at/with_sides_of a_rock judges_of_their and_learn messages_of_my if/because_that they_are_pleasant.
7 Like one_who_plows and_breaks_up on_the_earth bones_of_our they_have_been_scattered at_mouth_of Shəʼōl.
8 If/because toward_you Oh_YHWH my_master eyes_of_my in/on/at/with_you I_take_refuge do_not pour_out soul_of_my.
9 Keep_me from_grasp_of the_trap which_they_have_laid to_me and_snares_of those_who_do_of (of)_wickedness.
10 Let_them_fall in/on/at/with_nets_of_their_own wicked_people together I until I_will_pass_by.
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