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 Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my 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 mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.
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.
Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.
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!
When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol h7585)
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
