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 PSALM OF DAVID. O YHWH, I have called You, hurry to me, Give ear [to] my voice when I call to You.
2 Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee, —the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.
My prayer is prepared—incense before You, The lifting up of my hands—the evening present.
3 Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.
Set, O YHWH, a watch for my mouth, Watch over the door 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.
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.
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.
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.
6 Their judges, have been hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become sweet.
Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
7 As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)
As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (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 to You, O YHWH, my Lord, [are] my eyes, In You I have trusted, Do not make my soul bare.
9 Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.
Keep me from the trap they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
10 They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.
The wicked fall in their dragnets together, until I pass over!
