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Psalm 141 Free Bible Version

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1 A psalm of David. Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!
1 A Psalm by David. Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
2 Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
3 Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.
4 Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
5 Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.
5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6 They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plow, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
7 “As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
8 For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 70:5; Psalm 40:13; Psalm 71:12; Psalm 143:7; Psalm 69:17–18
  2. 2 Revelation 8:3–4; Revelation 5:8; 1 Timothy 2:8; Daniel 9:21; Malachi 1:11
  3. 3 James 1:26; Psalm 39:1; Micah 7:5; Psalm 34:13; James 3:2
  4. 4 Matthew 6:13; Psalm 119:36; Isaiah 63:17; 1 Corinthians 15:33; 2 Corinthians 6:17
  5. 5 Ecclesiastes 7:5; Revelation 3:19; Galatians 6:1; Proverbs 27:5–6; Proverbs 25:12
  6. 6 2 Chronicles 25:12; Psalm 45:2; 2 Samuel 5:1–3; 1 Samuel 31:1–8; 1 Chronicles 12:38
  7. 7 Psalm 53:5; Romans 8:36; Psalm 44:22; Revelation 11:8–9; 1 Samuel 22:18–19
  8. 8 Psalm 123:1–2; 2 Chronicles 20:12; Isaiah 41:17; Psalm 102:17; Psalm 25:15–17
  9. 9 Psalm 140:5; Luke 20:20; Psalm 119:110; Proverbs 13:14; Psalm 38:12
  10. 10 Psalm 35:8; Psalm 140:9; Psalm 64:7–8; Esther 7:10; Proverbs 11:8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXL)

    What this Psalm containeth, I believe that ye perceived when it was being chanted; for therein the Church of Christ, set in the midst of the wicked, complaineth and groaneth, and poureth out prayer to God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 141:5 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters LIII–LVIII)

    … yet hath not given me over to death." "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." "The righteous," saith it, "shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head." And again he saith, "Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 141:3 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book V, Chapters IX–X)

    Not yet, therefore, hadst Thou set a watch before my mouth, and kept the door of my lips, that my heart might not incline to wicked speeches, to make excuses of sins, with men that work iniquity --and, therefore, was I still united with their "Elect."

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 141:2 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVI)

    For as to this also being a sacrifice, hear what the prophet saith: "A sacrifice of praise will glorify me;" and again, "Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise;" and, "The lifting up of mine hands is an evening sacrifice." So that if it be but a prayer, which thou art offering in such a frame of mind, it were …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 141:2 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIII)

    But first listen to what thou sayest in the Psalm, "Let my prayer be set forth in Thy sight as incense." When then not incense, but a stinking smoke arises from thee, and from thy deeds, what punishment dost thou not deserve to undergo?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)