Psalm 141

1 O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me. 
      Hear my voice when I call to you. 
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense; 
      may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. 
3 Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; 
      keep watch over the door of my lips. 
4 Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, 
      to take part in wicked deeds 
      with men who are evildoers; 
      let me not eat of their delicacies. 
5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; 
      let him rebuke me—it is oil on my head. 
      My head will not refuse it. 
      Yet my prayer is ever against the deeds of evildoers; 
6 their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, 
      and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken. 
7 They will say, "As one plows and breaks up the earth, 
      so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave. " 
8 But my eyes are fixed on you, O Sovereign LORD; 
      in you I take refuge—do not give me over to death. 
9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, 
      from the traps set by evildoers. 
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, 
      while I pass by in safety.

                             St Francis in peace with the Sultan