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1 O, LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me.
Hear my voice when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a guard over my mouth, LORD;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
4 Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil
to take part in wicked deeds
with men who are evildoers;
let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Let a righteous man strike me – it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me –it is oil on my head.
My head will not refuse it,
Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers.
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6 Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,
and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.
7 They will say, ‘As one ploughs and breaks up the earth,
so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.’
8 But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD;
in you I take refuge – do not give me over to death.
9 Keep me safe from the snares they have laid for me
from the traps set by evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by in safety.
(NIV)
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Psalm 141:- Commentaries feel this psalm has been corrupt because it hard to understand the authors meaning. It is thought it could be an evening prayer.
I’m sure we have all at one time or another have met people we felt were evil or not right in what they were saying. The best thing that we can do is to say nothing and not get involved with what they are saying, because they just want to prove their point.
Sometimes after they have aired their complaint at the world, or the people close by, you can talk normally to them and find out what it is that hurts them. Sometimes it is a deep sorrow over something that has happened, and all we can do is to offer comforting words and see if there is an answer we can give to help them move on.
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