Psalm

141 O Jehovah, I have called upon you.+

Do make haste to me.+

Do give ear to my voice when I call to you.+

 2 May my prayer be prepared as incense+ before you,+

The raising up of my palms as the evening grain offering.+

 3 Do set a guard, O Jehovah, for my mouth;+

Do set a watch over the door of my lips.+

 4 Do not incline my heart to anything bad,+

So as to carry on notorious deeds in wickedness+

With men* who are practicing what is hurtful,+

That I may not feed myself on their dainties.+

 5 Should the righteous one strike me, it would be a loving-kindness;+

And should he reprove me, it would be oil upon the head,+

Which my head would not want to refuse.+

For still there would be even my prayer during their calamities.+

 6 Their judges have been thrown down by the sides of the crag,+

But they have heard my sayings, that they are pleasant.+

 7 As when one is doing cleaving and splitting on the earth,

Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheʹol.+

 8 However, my eyes are to you,+ O Jehovah the Sovereign Lord.+

In you I have taken refuge.+

Do not pour out my soul.+

 9 Keep me from the clutches of the trap that they have laid for me+

And from the snares of those practicing what is hurtful.+

10 The wicked will fall into their own nets all together,+

While I, for my part, pass by.