Psalmorum 141
1 Psalmus David. Domine clamavi ad te, exaudi me: intende voci meæ, cum clamavero ad te.
Lord, I cry to you: make haste to me; give ear to my voice, 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; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Pone Domine custodiam ori meo: et ostium circumstantiæ labiis meis.
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of 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.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 Corripiet me iustus in misericordia, et increpabit me: oleum autem peccatoris non impinguet caput meum. Quoniam adhuc et oratio mea in beneplacitis eorum:
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
6 absorpti sunt iuncti petræ iudices eorum. Audient verba mea quoniam potuerunt:
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
7 sicut crassitudo terræ erupta est super terram. Dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum: (Sheol h7585)
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cuts and splits wood on the earth. (Sheol h7585)
8 quia ad te Domine, Domine oculi mei: in te speravi, non auferas animam meam.
But my eyes are to you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
9 Custodi me a laqueo, quem statuerunt mihi: et a scandalis operantium iniquitatem.
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
10 Cadent in retiaculo eius peccatores: singulariter sum ego donec transeam.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape.
