Psalm 141, Chant D

 

Psalm 141     Domine, clamavi

1 O LORD, I call to you; come to me quick-ly; *
hear my voice when I cry to you.

2 Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as in-cense, *
the lifting up of my hands as the eve-ning sa-crifice.

3 Set a watch before my mouth, O LORD, and guard the door of my lips; *
let not my heart incline to any ev-il thing.

4 Let me not be occupied in wickedness with ev-il-do-ers, *
nor eat of their choice foods.

5 Let the righteous smite me in friendly rebuke; let not the oil of the unrighteous anoint my head; *
for my prayer is continually against their wic-ked deeds.

6 Let their rulers be overthrown in sto-ny pla-ces, *
that they may know my words are true.

7 As when a plowman turns over the earth in fur-rows, *
let their bones be scattered at the mouth of the grave.

8 But my eyes are turned to you, Lord GOD; *
in you I take refuge; do not strip me of my life.

9 Protect me from the snare which they have laid for me *
and from the traps of the ev-il-do-ers.

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, *
while I my-self es-cape.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Ho-ly Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ev-er. A-men.