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 by David. LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen 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 set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, 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.
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat 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 the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil 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 judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
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 ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are 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.
For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
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, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
