Prayer for Safekeeping from Wickedness

A Psalm of David.

141 Lord, I cry out to You;Make haste to me!Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.² Let my prayer be set before You as incense,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 incline my heart to any evil thing,To practice wicked worksWith men who work iniquity;And do not let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵ Let the righteous strike me;It shall be a kindness.And let him rebuke me;It shall be as excellent oil;Let my head not refuse it.

For still my prayer is against the deeds of the wicked.⁶ Their judges are overthrown by the sides of the cliff,And they hear my words, for they are sweet.⁷ Our bones are scattered at the mouth of the grave,As when one plows and breaks up the earth.

⁸ But my eyes are upon You, O GOD the Lord;In You I take refuge;Do not leave my soul destitute.⁹ Keep me from the snares they have laid for me,And from the traps of the workers of iniquity.¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets,While I escape safely.