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. Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me. Listen to me when I call to you.
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 like incense before you; may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.
Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth; guard 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.
Do not let my heart desire any evil thing or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. May I not eat any of their delicacies.
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.
Let a righteous man hit me; it will be a kindness to me. Let him correct me; it will be like oil on my head; may my head not refuse to accept it. But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.
6 When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.
Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs; they will hear that my own words are pleasant.
7 Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol h7585)
They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (Sheol h7585)
8 But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.
Surely my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord; in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.
Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me, from the traps of evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets while I escape.
