Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 141
1LORD, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me: give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee. 2Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my tips. 4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to be occupied in deeds of wickedness with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. 5Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; let not my head refuse it: for even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue. 6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock; and they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. 7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth. 8For mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee do I put my trust; leave not my soul destitute. 9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity. 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.