Today’s prayer from the Word of God online
Psalms 140
From the living Bible
Oh Lord deliver me from evil men. Preserve me from their violence, who plot and stir up trouble all day long. Their words staying like poisonous snakes. Keep me out of their power. Preserve me from their violence, but they are plotting against me. These proud men have set a trap to catch me, a news to jerk me up and leave me dangling in the air; the weight in ambush with a net to throw over and hold me helpless and its meshes.
Oh Jehovah, my Lord and Savior, my God, and my shield — hear me as I pray! Don’t let these wicked men succeed; don’t let them prosper and be proud. Let their plots boomerang! Let them be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me. Let burning coals fall down upon their heads, or throw them into the fire, or into deep pits from which they cannot escape.
Don’t let liars prosper here in our land; quickly punish them.
But the Lord will surely help those they persecute; he will maintain the rights of the poor. Surely the godly are thanking you, for they shall live in your presence.
Psalms 140 from the living Bible
Here are cries oh Lord! Listen to your people and deliver them from evil! For the hedge of protection around us Lord and hold us to your standards not the world’s
