The Book of Psalms 141

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1 LORD I cry unto thee make haste unto me give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee ⚑

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice ⚑

3 Set a watch O LORD before my mouth keep the door of my lips ⚑

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing to practise wicked works 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 an excellent oil which shall not break my head for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities ⚑

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places they shall hear my words for they are sweet ⚑

7 Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth ⚑

8 But mine eyes are unto thee O GOD the Lord in thee is my trust leave not my soul destitute ⚑

9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me and the gins of the workers of iniquity ⚑

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets whilst that I withal escape ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain