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. Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me. Listen to me when I call to you.
2 My prayer is prepared—incense before You, The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.
May my prayer be like incense before you; may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.
Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth; guard 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.
Do not let my heart desire any evil thing or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. May I not eat any of their delicacies.
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 a righteous man hit me; it will be a kindness to me. Let him correct me; it will be like oil on my head; may my head not refuse to accept it. But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.
6 Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs; they will hear that my own words are pleasant.
7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol h7585)
They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (Sheol h7585)
8 But to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, In You I have trusted, Do not make my soul bare.
Surely my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord; in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
9 Keep me from the trap they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me, from the traps of evildoers.
10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
Let the wicked fall into their own nets while I escape.
