Psalmorum 141

1 psalmus David Domine clamavi ad te exaudi me intende voci meae cum clamavero ad te

A Melody of David. O Yahweh, I have cried unto thee, Make thou haste to me, Give ear unto my voice, when I cry to thee.

2 dirigatur oratio mea sicut incensum in conspectu tuo elevatio manuum mearum sacrificium vespertinum

Let my prayer be set in order like incense before thee, —the lifting up of my hands, as the evening gift.

3 pone Domine custodiam ori meo et ostium circumstantiae labiis meis

Set thou, O Yahweh, a watch at my mouth, Keep thou guard over the door of my lips.

4 non declines cor meum in verba malitiae ad excusandas excusationes in peccatis cum hominibus operantibus iniquitatem et non communicabo cum electis eorum

Let not my heart incline to a matter of wrong, that I should busy myself with practices in lawlessness, with men working iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

5 corripiet me iustus in misericordia et increpabit me oleum autem peccatoris non inpinguet caput meum quoniam adhuc et oratio mea in beneplacitis eorum

Let a righteous man smite me—a lovingkindness, that he should correct me, an oil for the head [which] let not my head refuse! For, yet, even my prayer, shall be in their calamities.

6 absorti sunt iuncti petrae iudices eorum audient verba mea quoniam potuerunt

Their judges, have been hurled down by a crag, Now have men heard my sayings, for they have become sweet.

7 sicut crassitudo terrae erupta est super terram dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum (Sheol h7585)

As when one plougheth and furroweth the earth, Scattered about, are our bones at the mouth of hades! (Sheol h7585)

8 quia ad te Domine Domine oculi mei in te speravi non auferas animam meam

Surely, unto thee, O Yahweh, My Lord, are mine eyes, In thee, have I sought refuge, Do not pour out my life.

9 custodi me a laqueo quem statuerunt mihi et ab scandalis operantium iniquitatem

Keep me out of the clutches of the trap they have set for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity.

10 cadent in retiaculo eius peccatores singulariter sum ego donec transeam

They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.