Psalms 141

1 A Melody of David. O Yahweh, I have cried unto thee, Make thou haste to me, Give ear unto my voice, when I cry to thee.

A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.

2 Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee, —the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.

Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.

3 Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.

4 Let not my heart incline to a matter of wrong, that I should busy myself with practices in lawlessness, with men working iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

5 Let a righteous man smite me—a lovingkindness, that he should correct me, an oil for the head [which] let not my head refuse! For, yet, even my prayer, shall be in their calamities.

Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.

6 Their judges, have been hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become sweet.

When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.

7 As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)

Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol h7585)

8 Surely, unto thee, O Yahweh, My Lord, are mine eyes, In thee, have I sought refuge, Do not pour out my life.

But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.

9 Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.

Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

10 They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.

Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.