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 by David. LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen 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.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep 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.
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 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 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 hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become sweet.
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
7 As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)
“As when one ploughs and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (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.
For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
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 snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
10 They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
