< Psalms 141 >
1 “A psalm of David.” O Lord, I call thee, hasten unto me: give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
A psalm of David O Yahweh I call out to you make haste! to me give ear to! voice my when call I to you.
2 May my prayer be valued as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands, as the evening offering.
May it be established prayer my incense before you [the] raising of hands my an offering of evening.
3 Set, O Lord, a watch unto my mouth: keep a guard at the door of my lips.
Set! O Yahweh a guard for mouth my keep watch! over [the] door of lips my.
4 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.
May not you turn heart my to anything - evil to practice practices - in wickedness with people [who] do wickedness and not I will eat in delicacies their.
5 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.
Let him strike me a righteous [person] - loyalty and let him rebuke me oil of head may not it refuse head my for still and prayer my [is] on evil deeds their.
6 Are their judges fallen down through means of a rock: then will they listen to my words; for they are pleasant.
They have been thrown down at [the] hands of a rock judges their and they will hear words my for they are pleasant.
7 As when one cutteth in and splitteth open the earth: so are our bones scattered for the mouth of the grave. (Sheol )
Like [one who] plows and [who] breaks up the earth they have been scattered bones our to [the] mouth of Sheol. (Sheol )
8 For unto thee, O Eternal Lord, are my eyes directed; in thee do I trust: pour not out my life.
For [are] to you - (O Yahweh *L(ah+b)*) O Lord eyes my in you I take refuge may not you lay bare life my.
9 Guard me from the power of the snare which they have laid for me, and the traps of the wrong-doers.
Keep me from [the] hands of [the] trap [which] they have laid for me and [the] snares of [those who] do wickedness.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, altogether—while I pass safely by.
Let them fall in own nets his wicked [people] together I until I will pass by.