audio play audio stop

Give Ear to My Voice

A Psalm of David.

 O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
² Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

³ Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!
⁴ Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!

⁵ Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
⁶ When their judges are thrown over the cliff,^[a]
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
⁷ As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.^[b]

⁸ But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!^[c]
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 141:6 Or When their judges fall into the hands of the Rock
2. Psalm 141:7 The meaning of the Hebrew in verses 6, 7 is uncertain
3. Psalm 141:8 Hebrew refuge; do not pour out my life!

Cross references:

1. Psalm 141:1 : Ps. 40:13; 70:5
2. Psalm 141:2 : Luke 1:10; Rev. 5:8; 8:3, 4
3. Psalm 141:2 : See Ps. 28:2
4. Psalm 141:2 : See Ex. 29:41
5. Psalm 141:3 : Ps. 34:13
6. Psalm 141:3 : Mic. 7:5
7. Psalm 141:4 : Ps. 119:36
8. Psalm 141:4 : ver. 9; Ps. 94:4
9. Psalm 141:4 : Prov. 23:6
10. Psalm 141:5 : [Prov. 9:8; 19:25; 25:12; 27:6; Eccles. 7:5]
11. Psalm 141:5 : [Ps. 109:4]
12. Psalm 141:6 : 2 Chr. 25:12; [Luke 4:29]
13. Psalm 141:7 : Ps. 53:5; [Ezek. 37:1]
14. Psalm 141:8 : Ps. 25:15
15. Psalm 141:8 : See Ps. 11:1
16. Psalm 141:9 : See Ps. 140:5
17. Psalm 141:10 : [Ps. 7:15]