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. Lord, I call to you: hasten, to me, attend to my voice, when I call to you.

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

Let my prayer be presented as incense before you, and my uplifted hands as the evening meal-offering.

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

Set, O Lord, a watch on my mouth, put a guard on 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 an evil matter, to busy myself in deeds of wickedness, in company with workers of evil: never may I partake 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.

A wound or reproof from a good person in kindness is oil which my head shall never refuse. In their misfortune my prayer is still with them.

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

Abandoned they are to the hands of their judges: they shall learn that my words are true.

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

Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour. (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 my eyes are turned towards you, O Lord. Do not pour out my life, for in you I take refuge.

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

Keep me safe from the trap they have laid for me, from the snares of the workers of trouble.

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

Into their own nets let wicked people fall; while I pass by in safety.