Psalms 141
1 A psalm of David. Lord, I'm calling out to you! Please hurry up and help me! Please listen to me when I cry out to you!
“For the leader of the music. A psalm of David.” I cry to thee, O LORD! make haste unto me! Give ear to my voice, when I cry unto thee!
2 May my prayer be like incense before you, my uplifted hands like an evening offering.
Let my prayer come before thee as incense, And the lifting-up of my hands, as the evening sacrifice!
3 Lord, make sure I don't say anything I shouldn't—keep a watch over my conversations.
Set a watch, O LORD! before my mouth; Guard the door of my lips!
4 Don't let me think about evil things or take part in doing anything wrong with wicked people. I won't join in eating fancy food at their feasts.
Let not my heart incline to any evil thing; Let me not practise wickedness with the doers of iniquity, And let me not eat of their delicacies!
5 Let a good person punish me in love—let them correct me. It will be like an anointing—I won't refuse it. But I still pray against those who do evil.
Let the righteous smite me, —it shall be a kindness; Let him reprove me, and it shall be oil for my head; Let him do it again, and my head shall not refuse it; But now I pray against their wickedness!
6 They shall be thrown down by the power of the rock that judges them, and then they will recognize what I said was true!
When their judges are hurled over the side of the rock, They shall hear how pleasant are my words.
7 Just as the earth is broken up by the plough, so shall their bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
So are our bones scattered at the mouth of the underworld, As when one furroweth and ploweth up the land. (Sheol h7585)
8 But I'm looking to you, Lord God, for I find protection in you. Don't let me die!
But to thee do my eyes look, O Lord Jehovah! In thee is my trust; Let not my life be poured out!
9 Keep me safe from the traps they have set to catch me, from the snares of evil people.
Preserve me from the snares which they have laid for me, And from the nets of evil-doers!
10 Let them fall into their own traps while I pass by unharmed.
Let the wicked fall together into their own traps, Whilst I make my escape!
