< Psalms 141 >
1 A PSALM OF DAVID. O YHWH, I have called You, hurry to me, Give ear [to] my voice when I call to You.
A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you.
2 My prayer is prepared—incense before You, The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.
Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.
O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.
4 Do not incline my heart to an evil thing, To habitually do actions in wickedness, Working iniquity with men, Indeed, I do not eat of their pleasant things.
Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them.
5 The righteous beat me [in] kindness. And reprove me, My head does not disallow oil of the head, For my prayer [is] still about their distress.
The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will.
6 Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed,
7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol )
as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell. (Sheol )
8 But to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, In You I have trusted, Do not make my soul bare.
For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul.
9 Keep me from the trap they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over.