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title: Psalm 141
slug: kjv/psalm-141
createdAt: 2024-08-28T02:20:59.989Z
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**1 **\{A Psalm of David.} LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

**2 **Let my prayer be set forth before thee *as* incense; *and* the lifting up of my hands *as* the evening sacrifice.

**3 **Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of 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.

**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.

**6 **When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

**7 **Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth *wood* upon the earth.

**8 **But mine eyes *are* unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

**9 **Keep me from the snares *which* they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

**10 **Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.