Psalms 141

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.	1 A psalm of David. LORD, I call to you; come quickly to help me; listen to my plea when I call.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.	2 Let my prayer be incense before you; my uplifted hands an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.	3 Set a guard, LORD, before my mouth, a gatekeeper at 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.	4 Do not let my heart incline to evil, or yield to any sin. I will never feast upon the fine food of evildoers.
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.	5 Let the just strike me; that is kindness; let them rebuke me; that is oil for my head. All this I shall not refuse, but will pray despite these trials.
6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.	6 When their leaders are cast over the cliff, all will learn that my prayers were heard.
7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.	7 As when a farmer plows a field into broken clods, so their bones will be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.	8 My eyes are upon you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I take refuge; do not strip me of life.
9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.	9 Guard me from the trap they have set for me, from the snares of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.	10 Into their own nets let all the wicked fall, while I make good my own escape.