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 cry to thee: make haste to me; give ear 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 set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the 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; 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 wicked works with men that work 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 shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be 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 overthrown in stony places, 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 grave’s mouth, 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.
But my eyes are to thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my 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 traps which they have laid for me, and the snares 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, while I escape.
