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 by David. LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice 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.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep 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.
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat 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 the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
6 Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol h7585)
“As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are 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.
For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
