Psalms, 141
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0. A Psalm of David.
1. [Psalm Of David] Yahweh, I am calling, hurry to me, listen to my voice when I call to you.
1. I call upon thee, O LORD; make haste to me! Give ear to my voice, when I call to thee!
2. May my prayer be like incense in your presence, my uplifted hands like the evening sacrifice.
2. Let my prayer be counted as incense before thee, and the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice!
3. Yahweh, mount a guard over my mouth, a guard at the door of my lips.
3. Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD, keep watch over the door of my lips!
4. Check any impulse to speak evil, to share the foul deeds of evil-doers. I shall not sample their delights!
4. Incline not my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties!
5. May the upright correct me with a friend's rebuke; but the wicked shall never anoint my head with oil, for that would make me party to their crimes.
5. Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
6. They are delivered into the power of the rock, their judge, those who took pleasure in hearing me say,
6. When they are given over to those who shall condemn them, then they shall learn that the word of the LORD is true.
7. 'Like a shattered millstone on the ground our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.'
7. As a rock which one cleaves and shatters on the land, so shall their bones be strewn at the mouth of Sheol.
8. To you, Yahweh, I turn my eyes, in you I take refuge, do not leave me unprotected.
8. But my eyes are toward thee, O LORD God; in thee I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
9. Save me from the traps that are set for me, the snares of evil-doers.
9. Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers!
10. Let the wicked fall each into his own net, while I pass on my way.
10. Let the wicked together fall into their own nets, while I escape.
