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.
I have cried to the, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.
2 My prayer is prepared—incense before You, The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.
Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.
3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about 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 evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest 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 shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:
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 falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:
7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol h7585)
As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. (Sheol h7585)
8 But to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, In You I have trusted, Do not make my soul bare.
But o to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.
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 stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.
