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 call thee, hasten 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.
May my prayer be valued as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands, as the evening offering.
3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.
Set, O Lord, a watch unto my mouth: keep a guard at 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.
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.
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.
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.
6 Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
Are their judges fallen down through means of a rock: then will they listen to my words; for they are pleasant.
7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol h7585)
As when one cutteth in and splitteth open the earth: so are our bones scattered for the mouth of the grave. (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, O Eternal Lord, are my eyes directed; in thee do I trust: pour not out my life.
9 Keep me from the trap they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Guard me from the power of the snare which they have laid for me, and the traps of the wrong-doers.
10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, altogether—while I pass safely by.
