Psalm 141 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

A praise song of David.

¹ Lord, I call to you for help. Listen to me as I pray. Please hurry and help me!

² Accept my prayer like a gift of burning incense, the words I lift up like an evening sacrifice.

³ Lord, help me control what I say. Don’t let me say anything bad.

⁴ Take away any desire to do evil. Keep me from joining the wicked in doing wrong. Help me stay away from their feasts.

⁵ If good people correct me, I will consider it a good thing. If they criticize me, I will accept it like a warm welcome. But my prayer will always be against the wicked and the evil they do.

⁶ Let their judges be put to death. Then everyone will know that I told the truth.

⁷ Like rocks in a field that a farmer has plowed, so our bones will be scattered in the grave.

⁸ My Lord GOD, I look to you for help. I look to you for protection; don’t let me die.

⁹ Those evil people are trying to trap me. Don’t let me fall into their traps.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own traps, while I walk away unharmed.