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Chapter 141
Psal OEBcth 141:1  Lord, I call to you: hasten, to me, give ear to my voice, when I call to you.
Psal OEBcth 141:2  Let my prayer be presented as incense before you, and my uplifted hands as the evening meal-offering.
Psal OEBcth 141:3  Set, O Lord, a watch on my mouth, put a guard on the door of my lips.
Psal OEBcth 141:4  Incline not my heart to an evil matter, to busy myself in deeds of wickedness, in company with workers of evil: never may I partake of their dainties.
Psal OEBcth 141:5  A wound or reproof from a good person in kindness is oil which my head shall never refuse. In their misfortune my prayer is still with them.
Psal OEBcth 141:6  Abandoned they are to the hands of their judges: they shall learn that my words are true.
Psal OEBcth 141:7  Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour.
Psal OEBcth 141:8  But my eyes are turned towards you, O Lord. Do not pour out my life, for in you I take refuge.
Psal OEBcth 141:9  Keep me safe from the trap they have laid for me, from the snares of the workers of trouble.
Psal OEBcth 141:10  Into their own nets let wicked people fall; while I pass by in safety.