Great Prayers

Psalm 141 reads as follows in the New Oxford Annotated Bible;

I call you, Lord, make haste to me, listen to my voice when I call you.

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and raising my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord,

Watch the door of my lips,

Do not put my heart to all the evil

To take care of bad actions

Together with those who do evil,

Do not let them eat their specialties,

That just strikes me, That the faithful correct me,

Never let the anointing oil wicked my head

For my prayer is ever against their bad deeds,

When they are given more to those who condemn

Then they must learn that my words were pleasing,

Like a rock that one breaks, breaks on the ground

It is therefore the bones are scattered at the mouth of hell.

But my eyes are turned towards you, O God, my Lord;

I seek refuge in you, do not leave me defenseless

Keep me from the trap they have laid for me,

And snares of evil, Let the wicked fall into their nets,

While I am the only escape.

The first verse of this psalm is one of the most often cited in all the verses of the psalms as regards prayer, which he says: "Let my prayer is counted as incense before you"

There may be several interpretations assigned to these powerful words.

The background of this psalm is the uncertainty. The villains are evil and close to the psalmist, their presence represents a type of vortex, where the psalmist finds that he can become caught in the course of this whirlwind. For the psalmist, what is happening here and now and there is the immediacy of his need of repair. Danger lurks in a manner similar to that becomes a reality in those moments in which the life of the psalmist.

A key point of contact of the psalm is in verse 2 as he implores the power of prayer as a help for him and for those to whom he intercedes. His efforts are not only praying for himself directly, but also for the environment and people around him, both near and far.

Verse 2 raises several questions as well. To what extent the influence of prayer? The psalmist signers in this case is its able to go to the Lord in prayer and find that his prayers can be regarded as incense.

David, the psalmist speaks of the company close to those who work iniquity as containing candies, which means that there is a real attraction to what remains in their presence for themselves and for others. This is one of the dangers he sees from his point of view. His domestic defense is recognizing their wrong habits, but he feels he can also be done by the evil contained within their means. Part of what he has to lose if it goes this way is praised his high position or as someone who can come to the Lord and his prayers were counted as incense. For now, he says he prays without ceasing against the evil deeds of these evil men, it would be a contradiction if he joined their ranks in any way and it will jeopardize its position in its own prayer life.

Watching the first two verses, he is apparently asking the Lord to be with him in real time, as the first verse reads: "I call you, Lord, come quickly to me listen to my voice when I call. "

In this swirl of people near which contains a mix of criminals, there seems to be some degree of actual confusion for David to know who is who, as the bad guys are so close and intermingled with people around the psalmist who He is seeking their views and correct its course as it is necessary that the help of others who are on art