Psalms 141

• 1. O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
• 2. Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
• 3. Take control of what I say, O LORD, and keep my lips sealed.
• 4. Don't let me lust for evil things; don't let me participate in acts of wickedness. Don't let me share in the delicacies of those who do evil.
• 5. Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they reprove me, it is soothing medicine. Don't let me refuse it. But I am in constant prayer against the wicked and their deeds.
• 6. When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, they will listen to my words and find them pleasing.
• 7. Even as a farmer breaks up the soil and brings up rocks, so the bones of the wicked will be scattered without a decent burial.
• 8. I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don't let them kill me.
• 9. Keep me out of the traps they have set for me, out of the snares of those who do evil.
• 10. Let the wicked fall into their own snares, but let me escape.

Psalms 142

• 1. I cry out to the LORD; I plead for the LORD's mercy.
• 2. I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.
• 3. For I am overwhelmed, and you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.
• 4. I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me.
• 5. Then I pray to you, O LORD. I say, "You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in life.
• 6. Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
• 7. Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you treat me kindly."

Psalms 143

• 1. Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my plea! Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.
• 2. Don't bring your servant to trial! Compared to you, no one is perfect.
• 3. My enemy has chased me. He has knocked me to the ground. He forces me to live in darkness like those in the grave.
• 4. I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.
• 5. I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works. I think about what you have done.
• 6. I reach out for you. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.
• 7. Come quickly, LORD, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don't turn away from me, or I will die.
• 8. Let me hear of your unfailing love to me in the morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I have come to you in prayer.
• 9. Save me from my enemies, LORD; I run to you to hide me.
• 10. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.
• 11. For the glory of your name, O LORD, save me. In your righteousness, bring me out of this distress.
• 12. In your unfailing love, cut off all my enemies and destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.

New Living Translation: 215 of 324 days.