Godly Life, Ungodly Times

Give Ear to My Voice

A Psalm of David.

141 

O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!

    Give ear to my voice when I call to you!

2 

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,

    and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

3 

Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;

    keep watch over the door of my lips!

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!

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.

6 

When their judges are thrown over the cliff,

    then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.

7 

As when one plows and breaks up the earth,

    so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

8 

But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;

    in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!

9 

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me

    and from the snares of evildoers!

10 

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,

    while I pass by safely.