< Psalms 141 >
1 A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.
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 Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.
Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
4 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.
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 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.
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 When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.
Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
7 Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol )
As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol )
8 But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
For mine eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.
9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.