Psalm 14124
A psalm of David
141:1 O LORD, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me!
Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!
141:2 May you accept my prayer like incense,
my uplifted hands like the evening offering!1
141:3 O LORD, place a guard on my mouth!
Protect the opening2
of my lips!3
141:4 Do not let me have evil desires,4
or participate in sinful activities
with men who behave wickedly.5
I will not eat their delicacies.6
141:5 May the godly strike me in love and correct me!
May my head not refuse7
choice oil!8
Indeed my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.9
141:6 They will be thrown down the side of a cliff
by their judges.10
They11
will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
141:7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil,12
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
141:8 Surely I am looking to you,13
O sovereign LORD.
In you I take shelter.
Do not expose me to danger!14
141:9 Protect me from the snare they have laid for me,
and the traps the evildoers have set.15
141:10 Let the wicked fall16
into their17
own nets,
while I escape.18