Psalm 140 - holiday monday.. (10 more psalms to go...)

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men;
protect me from men of violence,
2 who devise evil plans in their hearts
and stir up war every day.

3 They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent's;
the poison of vipers is on their lips.
Selah

4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from men of violence
who plan to trip my feet.

5 Proud men have hidden a snare for me;
they have spread out the cords of their net
and have set traps for me along my path.
Selah

6 O LORD, I say to you, "You are my God."
Hear, O LORD, my cry for mercy.

7 O Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer,
who shields my head in the day of battle-

8 do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD;
do not let their plans succeed,
or they will become proud.
Selah

9 Let the heads of those who surround me
be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.

10 Let burning coals fall upon them;
may they be thrown into the fire,
into miry pits, never to rise.

11 Let slanderers not be established in the land;
may disaster hunt down men of violence.

12 I know that the LORD secures justice for the poor
and upholds the cause of the needy.

13 Surely the righteous will praise your name
and the upright will live before you.

Eunice: Lord Lord, protect me from the tongues of the evil men.. that slanderers will not be established in this land.. Lord, let their words not put me down... but I will be strengthened in you..

Crow: Lord, i find it hard to guard against the evil one.. Sometimes i find i even lose focus on what i am doing, why am i doing this, etc... But Lord, help me to live for you so that i can praise Your name now and forevermore

Dellia: This is what I really need. Lord, be near, let me know that You are near. I will praise You all the times, even if I don't understand...I will still praise You.