Psalms 141:1-7

¹A psalm of David. Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!

²May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.

³Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.

⁴Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.

⁵Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.

⁶They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!

⁷Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.