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Psalm 141 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Give Ear to My Voice

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:1 - A Psalm of David.
O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 - Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:3 - Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:4 - Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:5 - Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:6 - When their judges are thrown over the cliff,[fn]
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:7 - As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:8 - But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless![fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:9 - Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:10 - Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.
See the ESV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
ESV Footnotes
Or When their judges fall into the hands of the Rock
The meaning of the Hebrew in verses 6, 7 is uncertain
Hebrew refuge; do not pour out my life!
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Psalm Chapter 141 — Additional Translations:

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