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!
Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, 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; and the lifting up of my hands as the 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, before my mouth; keep the door 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 my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
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 judges are overthrown in stony places, 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)
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on 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 my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape.
