Psalms 141
1 A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
A Melody of David. O Yahweh, I have cried unto thee, Make thou haste to me, Give ear unto my voice, when I cry to thee.
2 Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee, —the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.
3 O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.
4 Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
Let not my heart incline to a matter of wrong, that I should busy myself with practices in lawlessness, with men working iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
Let a righteous man smite me—a lovingkindness, that he should correct me, an oil for the head [which] let not my head refuse! For, yet, even my prayer, shall be in their calamities.
6 Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
Their judges, have been hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become sweet.
7 as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell. (Sheol h7585)
As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)
8 For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
Surely, unto thee, O Yahweh, My Lord, are mine eyes, In thee, have I sought refuge, Do not pour out my life.
9 Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.
10 The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.
They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.
