Psaumes 141
1 Psaume de David. Eternel, je t’invoque, hâte-toi de me porter secours, prête l’oreille à ma voix, lorsque je t’invoque.
Yahweh, I call out to you; [please] help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.
2 Que ma prière soit considérée à tes yeux comme de l’encens, mes mains tendues comme l’offrande du soir.
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].
3 Exerce, ô Eternel, ta surveillance sur ma bouche, garde avec soin la porte de mes lèvres.
Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard my lips.
4 Ne laisse mon cœur tendre à rien de mauvais, se livrer à des actes criminels, de concert avec des gens pratiquant l’iniquité. Puissé-je ne jamais goûter à leurs plats fins!
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!
5 Que le juste m’assène des coups, c’est une preuve d’amour; qu’il me châtie, c’est comme de l’huile sur la tête, à laquelle ma tête ne se soustrait point; mais certes de façon constante ma prière s’élèvera contre leurs méchancetés.
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].
6 Que leurs magistrats glissent sur les arêtes du rocher, on entendra alors combien douces sont mes paroles.
When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs, people will know that what you, Yahweh, said [about them] is true.
7 De même que le laboureur creuse et entrouvre le sol, ainsi nos ossements gisent épars au bord de la tombe. (Sheol h7585)
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)
8 Certes, vers toi, ô Dieu, mon Maître, se tournent mes yeux, en toi je mets mon attente: ne laisse pas s’écouler ma vie.
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]!
9 Protège-moi contre le piège qu’ils m’ont dressé, contre les embûches des artisans d’iniquité.
[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.
10 Que les impies tombent dans leurs propres filets, tandis que moi je passe outre, demeurant sain et sauf!
I desire that wicked [people] will fall into the traps they have set [to catch me] while I escape [from them].
