Psalms 141
1 A psalm of David. Yahweh, I am crying out to you; come quickly to me. Listen to me when I call to you.
A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear [to] my voice when I call to Thee.
2 May my prayer be like incense before you; may my lifted hands be like the evening sacrifice.
My prayer is prepared — incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands — the evening present.
3 Yahweh, place a guard over my mouth; guard the door of my lips.
Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart desire any evil thing or participate in sinful activities with men who behave wickedly. May I not eat any of their delicacies.
Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.
5 Let a righteous man hit me; it will be a kindness to me. Let him correct me; it will be like oil on my head; may my head not refuse to accept it. But my prayer is always against their wicked deeds.
The righteous doth beat me [in] kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer [is] about their vexations.
6 Their leaders will be thrown down from the top of cliffs; they will hear that my own words are pleasant.
Their judges have been released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
7 They will have to say, “As when one plows and breaks up the ground, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.” (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 my eyes are on you, Yahweh, Lord; in you I take refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, [are] mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.
9 Protect me from the snares that they have laid for me, from the traps of evildoers.
Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets while I escape.
The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
