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Psalms 141
An evening prayer that asks God to come quickly and to receive the lifted hands like incense and the evening sacrifice. But David's chief request is unusual: not protection from enemies first, but a guard over his own mouth and heart.
- 1
LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
- 2
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
- 3
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
- 4
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
- 5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
- 6
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
- 7
“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
- 8
For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
- 9
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
- 10
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
Welcome rebuke, refused delicacies
David would rather be struck by the righteous — "it is kindness... like oil on the head" (v.5) — than share the delicacies of the wicked. The danger he most fears is being drawn into their evil; only at the end (vv.9-10) does the prayer turn outward to the snares laid for him, eyes fixed on the Lord for refuge.
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