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David wrote this song.

An evening prayer[a]

141 Lord, I am calling to you for help.
    Come to me quickly!
    Please listen to what I am saying.
I offer my prayer to you like incense.
    Please accept it when I raise my hands to you.
    Accept it like a gift that I offer to you in the evening.
Lord, keep my mouth safe,
    so that I do not speak bad things.

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Footnotes

  1. 141:1 Maybe David wrote this psalm when Absalom was trying to kill him. See 2 Samuel 15:13.

Psalm 141

A psalm of David.

I call to you, Lord, come quickly(A) to me;
    hear me(B) when I call to you.
May my prayer be set before you like incense;(C)
    may the lifting up of my hands(D) be like the evening sacrifice.(E)

Set a guard over my mouth,(F) Lord;
    keep watch over the door of my lips.(G)

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