Psalms 141
1 A psalm of David O Yahweh I call out to you make haste! to me give ear to! voice my when call I to you.
A psalm of David. Lord, I call to you: hasten, to me, attend to my voice, when I call to you.
2 May it be established prayer my incense before you [the] raising of hands my an offering of evening.
Let my prayer be presented as incense before you, and my uplifted hands as the evening meal-offering.
3 Set! O Yahweh a guard for mouth my keep watch! over [the] door of lips my.
Set, O Lord, a watch on my mouth, put a guard on the door of my lips.
4 May not you turn heart my to anything - evil to practice practices - in wickedness with people [who] do wickedness and not I will eat in delicacies their.
Incline not my heart to an evil matter, to busy myself in deeds of wickedness, in company with workers of evil: never may I partake of their dainties.
5 Let him strike me a righteous [person] - loyalty and let him rebuke me oil of head may not it refuse head my for still and prayer my [is] on evil deeds their.
A wound or reproof from a good person in kindness is oil which my head shall never refuse. In their misfortune my prayer is still with them.
6 They have been thrown down at [the] hands of a rock judges their and they will hear words my for they are pleasant.
Abandoned they are to the hands of their judges: they shall learn that my words are true.
7 Like [one who] plows and [who] breaks up the earth they have been scattered bones our to [the] mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
Like stones on a country road cleft and broken so lie our bones scattered for Death to devour. (Sheol h7585)
8 For [are] to you - (O Yahweh *L(ah+b)*) O Lord eyes my in you I take refuge may not you lay bare life my.
But my eyes are turned towards you, O Lord. Do not pour out my life, for in you I take refuge.
9 Keep me from [the] hands of [the] trap [which] they have laid for me and [the] snares of [those who] do wickedness.
Keep me safe from the trap they have laid for me, from the snares of the workers of trouble.
10 Let them fall in own nets his wicked [people] together I until I will pass by.
Into their own nets let wicked people fall; while I pass by in safety.
