Psalms 141
1 Yahweh, I call out to you; [please] help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.
Psaume de David. Yahweh, je t’invoque; hâte-toi de venir vers moi; prête l’oreille à ma voix, quand je t’invoque.
2 Accept my prayer as though it were incense [being burned as an offering] [SIM] to you. And accept me while I lift up my hands [to pray] to you like you accept sacrifices [that I offer to you each] evening [SIM].
Que ma prière soit devant ta face comme l’encens, et l’élévation de mes mains comme l’offrande du soir!
3 Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard my lips.
Yahweh, mets une garde à ma bouche, une sentinelle à la porte de mes lèvres.
4 Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong, and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds [DOU]. Do not [even] allow me to share in eating delightful food with them!
N’incline pas mon cœur vers des choses mauvaises; ne l’incline pas à se livrer à des actes de méchanceté avec les hommes qui commettent l’iniquité; que je ne prenne aucune part à leurs festins!
5 It is all right if righteous people strike/hit me or rebuke me because they are trying to act kindly toward me [to teach me to do what is right], but I do not want wicked [people] to [honor me by] anointing my head with [olive] oil; I am always praying [that you will punish them because of] the wicked deeds [that they do].
Que le juste me frappe, c’est une faveur; qu’il me reprenne, c’est un parfum sur ma tête; ma tête ne le refusera pas, car alors je n’opposerai que ma prière à leurs mauvais desseins.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs, people will know that what you, Yahweh, said [about them] is true.
Mais bientôt leurs chefs seront précipités le long des rochers; et l’on écoutera mes paroles, car elles sont agréables.
7 Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces [SIM], their shattered bones will be scattered [on the ground] near [other] graves. (Sheol h7585)
Comme lorsqu’on laboure et que l’on ameublit la terre, ainsi nos ossements sont semés au bord du schéol. (Sheol h7585)
8 But Yahweh God, I [continue to] ask you [to help me]. I ask you to protect me; do not allow me to (die/be killed) [now]!
Car vers toi, Seigneur Yahweh, je tourne mes yeux; auprès de toi je cherche un refuge: n’abandonne pas mon âme!
9 [It is as though] people have set traps for me; protect me from falling into those traps, [It is as though] they have spread nets to catch me; keep me from being caught in those nets.
Préserve-moi des pièges qu’ils me tendent, des embûches de ceux qui font le mal!
10 I desire that wicked [people] will fall into the traps they have set [to catch me] while I escape [from them].
Que les méchants tombent dans leurs propres filets, et que j’échappe en même temps!
