Psalms 141

1 I have cried to the, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee.

A Psalme of David. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.

2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight; the lifting up of my hands, as evening sacrifice.

Let my prayer be directed in thy sight as incense, and the lifting vp of mine hands as an euening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to evil words; to make excuses in sins. With men that work iniquity: and I will not communicate with the choicest of them.

Incline not mine heart to euill, that I should commit wicked workes with men that worke iniquitie: and let me not eate of their delicates.

5 The just shall correct me in mercy, and shall reprove me: but let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head. For my prayer also shall still be against the things with which they are well pleased:

Let the righteous smite me: for that is a benefite: and let him reprooue me, and it shalbe a precious oyle, that shall not breake mine head: for within a while I shall euen pray in their miseries.

6 Their judges falling upon the rock have been swallowed up. They shall hear my words, for they have prevailed:

When their iudges shall be cast downe in stonie places, they shall heare my wordes, for they are sweete.

7 As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell. (Sheol h7585)

Our bones lye scattered at the graues mouth, as he that heweth wood or diggeth in the earth. (Sheol h7585)

8 But o to thee, O Lord, Lord, are my eyes: in thee have I put my trust, take not away my soul.

But mine eyes looke vnto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust: leaue not my soule destitute.

9 Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

10 The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

Let the wicked fall into his nettes together, whiles I escape.