141 Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me:
Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
² Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening ^[a]sacrifice.
³ Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth;
Keep the door of my lips.
⁴ Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
To practise deeds of wickedness
With men that work iniquity:
And let me not eat of their dainties.
⁵ Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness;
And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head;
Let not my head refuse it:
For ^[b]even in their ^[c]wickedness shall my prayer continue.
⁶ Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock;
And they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
⁷ As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth,
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
⁸ For mine eyes are unto thee, O Jehovah the Lord:
In thee do I take refuge; ^[d]leave not my soul destitute.
⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,
And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
Whilst that I withal ^[e]escape.