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. Lord, I call to you: hasten, to me, attend to my voice, when I call to you.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer be presented as incense before you, and my uplifted hands as the evening meal-offering.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set, O Lord, a watch on my mouth, put a guard on 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 an evil matter, to busy myself in deeds of wickedness, in company with workers of evil: never may I partake 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.
A wound or reproof from a good person in kindness is oil which my head shall never refuse. In their misfortune my prayer is still with them.
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!
Abandoned they are to the hands of their judges: they shall learn that my words are true.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour. (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 turned towards you, O Lord. Do not pour out my life, for in you I take refuge.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keep me safe from the trap they have laid for me, from the snares of the workers of trouble.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Into their own nets let wicked people fall; while I pass by in safety.
