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 call thee, hasten unto me: give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
2 Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.
May my prayer be valued as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands, as the evening offering.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
Set, O Lord, a watch unto my mouth: keep a guard at the door of my 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.
Permit not my heart to incline after any evil thing, to practise deeds in wickedness with men that are doers of wrong: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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.
If the righteous strike me, it is a kindness; and if he reprove me, it is [as] oil poured on the head, my head shall not refuse it; for yet my prayer also [is offered] in their sufferings.
6 When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.
Are their judges fallen down through means of a rock: then will they listen to my words; for they are pleasant.
7 Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol h7585)
As when one cutteth in and splitteth open the earth: so are our bones scattered for the mouth of the grave. (Sheol h7585)
8 But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
For unto thee, O Eternal Lord, are my eyes directed; in thee do I trust: pour not out my life.
9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
Guard me from the power of the snare which they have laid for me, and the traps of the wrong-doers.
10 Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, altogether—while I pass safely by.
