Psalms 141
1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you.
A psalm of David. Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me. Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.
May my prayer be like incense before you; may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth; guard the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.
Do not let my heart desire any evil thing or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. May I not eat any of their delicacies.
5 The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
Let a righteous man hit me; it will be a kindness to me. Let him correct me; it will be like oil on my head; may my head not refuse to accept it. But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.
6 Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs; they will hear that my own words are pleasant.
7 As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol h7585)
They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (Sheol h7585)
8 For mine eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.
Surely my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord; in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me, from the traps of evildoers.
10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets while I escape.
