< Psalms 141 >
1 melody to/for David LORD to call: call to you to hasten [emph?] to/for me to listen [emph?] voice my in/on/with to call: call to I to/for you
“A psalm of David.” O Lord, I call thee, hasten unto me: give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.
2 to establish: make prayer my incense to/for face: before your tribute palm my offering evening
May my prayer be valued as incense before thee, the lifting up of my hands, as the evening offering.
3 to set: make [emph?] LORD guard to/for lip my to watch [emph?] upon door lips my
Set, O Lord, a watch unto my mouth: keep a guard at the door of my lips.
4 not to stretch heart my to/for word: because bad: evil to/for to abuse wantonness in/on/with wickedness with man to work evil: wickedness and not to feed on in/on/with delicacy their
Permit not my heart to incline after any evil thing, to practise deeds in wickedness with men that are doers of wrong: and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 to smite me righteous kindness and to rebuke me oil head not to forbid head my for still and prayer my in/on/with distress: evil their
If the righteous strike me, it is a kindness; and if he reprove me, it is [as] oil poured on the head, my head shall not refuse it; for yet my prayer also [is offered] in their sufferings.
6 to release in/on/with hand: bank crag to judge them and to hear: hear word my for be pleasant
Are their judges fallen down through means of a rock: then will they listen to my words; for they are pleasant.
7 like to cleave and to break up/open in/on/with land: country/planet to scatter bone our to/for lip hell: Sheol (Sheol )
As when one cutteth in and splitteth open the earth: so are our bones scattered for the mouth of the grave. (Sheol )
8 for to(wards) you (YHWH/God *L(ah+b)*) Lord eye my in/on/with you to seek refuge not to uncover soul: myself my
For unto thee, O Eternal Lord, are my eyes directed; in thee do I trust: pour not out my life.
9 to keep: guard me from hand: power snare to snare to/for me and snare to work evil: wickedness
Guard me from the power of the snare which they have laid for me, and the traps of the wrong-doers.
10 to fall: fall in/on/with net his wicked unitedness I till to pass
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, altogether—while I pass safely by.