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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 141 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/141.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/141-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 141</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/140.htm" title="Psalm 140">◄</a> Psalm 141 <a href="../psalms/142.htm" title="Psalm 142">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/141-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Come Quickly to Me<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../psalms/70.htm">Psalm 70:1–5</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Chanting to David. O Jehovah, I called to thee; hasten to me; give ear to my voice in my calling to thee.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My prayer shall be prepared incense before thee; the lifting up my hands the gift of the evening.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Set, O Jehovah, a watch to my mouth; guard over the door of my lips.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Their judges were cast down against the hands of the rock, and they heard my words, for they were sweet.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>As he cutting up and cleaving asunder in the earth, our bones were scattered at the mouth of hades.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord, are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust; thou wilt not make my soul naked.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Watch me from the hands of the snare they will lay for me, and the snares of those working iniquity.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/141-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The unjust shall fall into their nets together, till I shall pass by.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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