Psalmorum 141
1 Psalmus David. Domine clamavi ad te, exaudi me: intende voci meæ, cum clamavero ad te.
Yahweh, I call out to you; [please] help me quickly! Listen to me when I am calling to you.
2 Dirigatur oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo: elevatio manuum mearum sacrificium vespertinum.
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 Pone Domine custodiam ori meo: et ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.
Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard my lips.
4 Non declines cor meum in verba malitiæ, ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis. Cum hominibus operantibus iniquitatem: et non communicabo cum electis eorum.
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 Corripiet me iustus in misericordia, et increpabit me: oleum autem peccatoris non impinguet caput meum. Quoniam adhuc et oratio mea in beneplacitis eorum:
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 absorpti sunt iuncti petræ iudices eorum. Audient verba mea quoniam potuerunt:
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 sicut crassitudo terræ erupta est super terram. Dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum: (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 quia ad te Domine, Domine oculi mei: in te speravi, non auferas animam meam.
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 Custodi me a laqueo, quem statuerunt mihi: et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.
[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 Cadent in retiaculo eius peccatores: singulariter sum ego donec transeam.
I desire that wicked [people] will fall into the traps they have set [to catch me] while I escape [from them].
