< Psalmorum 141 >
1 Psalmus David. Domine, clamavi ad te: exaudi me; intende voci meæ, cum clamavero ad te.
A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried to you; hear me: attend to the voice of my supplication, when I cry to you.
2 Dirigatur oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo; elevatio manuum mearum sacrificium vespertinum.
Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; the lifting up of my hands [as] an evening sacrifice.
3 Pone, Domine, custodiam ori meo, et ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.
Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, and a strong door about by lips.
4 Non declines cor meum in verba malitiæ, ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis; cum hominibus operantibus iniquitatem, et non communicabo cum electis eorum.
Incline not my heart to evil things, to employ pretexts for sins, with me who work iniquity: and I will not. let me not unite with their choice ones.
5 Corripiet me justus in misericordia, et increpabit me: oleum autem peccatoris non impinguet caput meum. Quoniam adhuc et oratio mea in beneplacitis eorum:
The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: for yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
6 absorpti sunt juncti petræ judices eorum. Audient verba mea, quoniam potuerunt.
Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
7 Sicut crassitudo terræ erupta est super terram, dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum. (Sheol )
As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol )
8 Quia ad te, Domine, Domine, oculi mei; in te speravi, non auferas animam meam.
For mine eyes are to you, O Lord God: I have hoped in you; take not away my life.
9 Custodi me a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi, et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.
Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, and from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
10 Cadent in retiaculo ejus peccatores: singulariter sum ego, donec transeam.
Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.