Psalms 141
1 A psalm of David. Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!
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.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
4 Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.
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.
5 Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.
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.
6 They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!
Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol h7585)
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
For mine eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.
