Psalm 141 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Psa 141:1A psalm of David.

O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!

Psa 141:2Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

Psa 141:3Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.

Psa 141:4Don’t let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.

Psa 141:5

Psa 141:5Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don’t let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.

Psa 141:6

Psa 141:6When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

Psa 141:7

Psa 141:7Like rocks brought up by a plow,
the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.[fn]

Psa 141:8

Psa 141:8I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.

Psa 141:9

Psa 141:9Keep me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do wrong.

Psa 141:10

Psa 141:10Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
but let me escape.

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NLT Footnotes

(141:7)

Hebrew scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

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