Psalm 141141PsalmsBook 5unfoldingWord® Literal Text

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1. Come Quickly to Me

   (Psalm 70:1–5)

2. 1ULTA psalm of David Yahweh, I cry out to you,“Hurry to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to you.”BSBBSB: A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
3. 2ULTMay my prayer be established{ like} incense to your face, a raising of my palms{ like} the evening sacrifice.BSBBSB: May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
4. 3ULTYahweh, place a guard over my mouth; guard the door of my lips.BSBBSB: Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
5. 4ULTDo not turn my heart toward an evil thing to wantonly act in activities in wickedness with men, doers of evil. And may I not dine on their delicacies.BSBBSB: Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
6. 5ULTLet the righteous hit me— covenant faithfulness, and he is correcting me! Oil for the head may my head not refuse. For my prayer{ is} continually against their wickedness.BSBBSB: Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.
7. 6ULTTheir judges are thrown down beside a cliff; and they hear my words, that they are pleasant.BSBBSB: When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
8. 7ULT“Just as splitting and breaking up in the ground, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”BSBBSB: As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
9. 8ULTYet my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord; in you I take refuge; do not uncover my soul.BSBBSB: But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
10. 9ULTKeep me from the hands of the snare they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of evil.BSBBSB: Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
11. 10ULTLet the wicked fall into his nets together, I, while I cross over.BSBBSB: Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.

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