Prayer for God’s Help in Maintaining Integrity
A psalm of David.
141 I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me.
Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set before you as incense,
the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.
3 Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
to practice wicked deeds
with men who do iniquity;
and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,
and let him chasten me.
It is oil for my head; let not my head refuse.
For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
6 When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff,
then they will understand that my words were pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord;
I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.
9 Protect me from the grasp of the trap they have laid for me,
and from the snares of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their nets,
while I escape altogether.
Footnotes
- Psalm 141:1
- Psalm 141:5
- Psalm 141:6
- Psalm 141:8
- Psalm 141:8
- Psalm 141:9
- Psalm 141:10
