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. Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

2 My prayer is prepared—incense before You, The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of 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.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.

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.

Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.

6 Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.

When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol h7585)

Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth. (Sheol h7585)

8 But to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, In You I have trusted, Do not make my soul bare.

For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.

9 Keep me from the trap they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal pass over.