Psalms 141
1 A Psalm, by David. O Jehovah, I have called Thee, haste to me, Give ear [to] my voice when I call to Thee.
Adonai, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
2 My prayer is prepared — incense before Thee, The lifting up of my hands — the evening present.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
3 Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
Set a watch, Adonai, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
4 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.
Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of ethical wickedness with men who work vain striving of iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
5 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.
Let the upright 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 released by the sides of a rock, And they have heard my sayings, For they have been pleasant.
Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will sh'ma ·hear obey· my words, for they are well spoken.
7 As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul. (Sheol h7585)
“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol ·Place of the dead·.” (Sheol h7585)
8 But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, [are] mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul.
For my eyes are on you, Adonai, the 'Adonay [Yahweh the Lord]. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
9 Keep me from the gin they laid for me, Even snares of workers of iniquity.
Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of vain striving of iniquity.
10 The wicked fall in their nets together, till I pass over!
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.
