Psalms 141

1Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave.

1 Jehovah, I have called upon thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

2I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening oblation.

3In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

4When my spirit failed me, then thou knewest my paths. In this way wherein I walked, they have hidden a snare for me.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise deeds of wickedness with men that are workers of iniquity; and let me not eat of their dainties.

5I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul.

5 Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is [for them] in their calamities.

6I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

6 When their judges are thrown down from the rocks, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

7Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

7 Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

8Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the just wait for me, until thou reward me.

8 For unto thee, Jehovah, Lord, are mine eyes; in thee do I trust: leave not my soul destitute.

9(not in this translation)

9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

10(not in this translation)

10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal pass over.