Psalmorum 141
1 psalmus David Domine clamavi ad te exaudi me intende voci meae 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 circumstantiae labiis meis
Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong; guard 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
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 inpinguet 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 absorti sunt iuncti petrae 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 terrae 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 ab 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].
