Psalm 141 141 Psalms Book 5 unfoldingWord® Simplified Text Come Quickly to Me (Psalm 70:1–5)
1 UST This is a psalm of David. Yahweh, I call out to you; please help me quickly! Please listen to me when I am calling out to you. BSB BSB: A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
2 UST Please accept my prayer{ as though it were} an offering of incense to you. Please accept me while I lift up my hands{ to pray to you}, just as you accept the sacrifices that people offer to you each evening. BSB BSB: May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
3 UST Yahweh, do not allow me to say things that are bad or wrong. Do not allow me to say those things as a sentry does not allow the wrong people to go through a doorway. BSB BSB: Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
4 UST Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds. Do not even allow me to share in eating their delightful food! BSB BSB: 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.
5 UST It is all right if righteous people strike me because they are acting faithfully and kindly toward me to correct me.{ If they do that, it will be as if they have honored me by} anointing my head with{ olive} oil, and may I never refuse to accept it. but I am always praying that you will punish the wicked because of the wicked deeds that they do. BSB BSB: 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.
6 UST When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs, the wicked will hear what I am saying, and will know that what I am saying is right and good. BSB BSB: When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
7 UST { They will say,}“Just as one scatters{ clods of earth} when he breaks up the ground,{ soon} our bodies will lie scattered on the way to the place where dead people are.” BSB BSB: As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 UST But Lord Yahweh, I continue to rely on you. I ask you to protect me; please do not stop protecting my life! BSB BSB: But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 UST People who do evil things are trying to trick me and destroy me. It is as though they have laid out snares and set traps for me. Please keep me safe from what they are trying to do to me. BSB BSB: Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
10 UST I desire that wicked people fall together into the traps that they have set{ to catch me}, while, for my part, I escape{ from them}. BSB BSB: Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
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