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 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 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee, —the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over 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.
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 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 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 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 judges, have been hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become 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 when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
Surely, unto thee, O Yahweh, My Lord, are mine eyes, In thee, have I sought refuge, Do not pour out my life.
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.
